Applied AI Engineer, Robotics Evaluation - Mid

Full-time | TC starting at 50k | Milan

About the Position

Evaluate and improve AI-powered robotics workflows across simulations, edge devices, and real hardware. Build rigorous test plans, debug system behavior, and help turn complex robot deployments into reliable customer-ready products.

Cyberwave is building the infrastructure layer for intelligent machines - making robotics as accessible, scalable, and programmable as cloud software. Our platform connects real robots, simulations, edge devices, cloud services, and developer tools into one reliable operating layer for robotics teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and run evaluations for Cyberwave infrastructure, AI-assisted workflows, frontend products, backend APIs, edge software, SDKs, and robotics integrations
• Validate hardware-in-the-loop workflows using real robots, simulations, telemetry streams, and edge devices
• Evaluate integrations involving ROS, ROS 2, drones, AGVs/AMRs, robotic arms, sensors, cameras, and industrial automation equipment
• Build repeatable regression checks for core product flows, including setup, pairing, telemetry, control, simulation, deployment, and monitoring
• Investigate failures across logs, network traces, robot behavior, UI state, AI outputs, and backend responses, then produce actionable reports
• Collaborate with engineering and product to define evaluation criteria and release gates for new robotics capabilities
• Help improve evaluation infrastructure, test data, device labs, and documentation so the team can move faster with confidence

Requirements

• 3+ years of applied AI, robotics engineering, test engineering, automation engineering, QA, or systems integration experience
• Hands-on experience evaluating robotics, industrial automation, autonomous systems, or hardware-in-the-loop products
• Specific experience with ROS or ROS 2, including validating nodes, topics, services, launch files, logs, and robot behavior
• Experience with at least one class of real robotic or automation hardware, such as drones, AGVs/AMRs, robotic arms, mobile robots, cameras, sensors, PLCs, or industrial controllers
• Ability to turn complex system behavior into clear evaluation plans, acceptance criteria, reproduction steps, and release-readiness signals
• Comfort using developer tools such as Git, Docker, command-line utilities, APIs, logs, and basic scripting in Python or TypeScript
• Comfort debugging ambiguous failures across AI workflows, software, networking, edge devices, and physical hardware
• Comfortable working in English in an international, fast-moving environment

What We Offer

• Work directly with real robots, edge devices, and customer-facing automation workflows
• Own evaluation and reliability for infrastructure that connects AI workflows to physical deployments
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity
• Join a high-talent team of repeat founders, ex-Google engineers, and PhDs
• In-person collaboration in Milan with access to robotics hardware and automation labs

Ready to Join Our Team?

We'd love to hear from you! When applying, please include:

• Your Github or LinkedIn profile
• 2-3 lines about why you would like to join Cyberwave

Tell us what excites you about this opportunity and how you can contribute to our mission!