Model Evaluation Lead at Dyna Robotics · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

Dyna Robotics is building general-purpose robots that perform useful work in real-world environments. We’re looking for a Model Evaluation Lead to lead the team responsible for understanding how our robot policies perform and whether new model versions deliver meaningful improvements.
You’ll manage and develop the evaluation team, own evaluation planning and execution, and work closely with researchers to define what we test, how we measure it, and what we learn. This is a hands-on leadership role combining people management, experimental rigor, and technical judgment. Your work will help researchers understand model behavior, prioritize improvements, and assess readiness for deployment.
Lead and develop the evaluation team. Manage the team’s priorities, performance, and growth. Establish clear ownership, provide regular coaching and feedback, and build onboarding and training practices that help team members execute evaluations and investigate issues independently.
Work closely with researchers. Translate research questions into evaluation plans with clear hypotheses, success criteria, and deliverables. Partner with researchers to compare model checkpoints, assess new capabilities, and balance recurring evaluations with urgent experiments and available robot capacity.
Design meaningful evaluations. Develop task definitions, scoring rubrics, and test scenarios that reflect real operating conditions. Measure task success, output quality, cycle time, human interventions, and recovery behavior. Choose appropriate trial counts and account for variability when interpreting results.
Make results repeatable and trustworthy. Standardize setup, resets, scoring, and intervention rules. Ensure results are traceable to model versions, robot configurations, test conditions, logs, and videos. Coordinate with hardware and operations partners to resolve issues that affect evaluation quality.
Turn failures into actionable findings. Review robot behavior, logs, and video with the team and researchers. Distinguish model failures from hardware, software, setup, or execution issues. Identify recurring failure patterns and recommend focused investigations, additional data collection, or annotation improvements.
Own regression coverage and reporting. Maintain consistent benchmarks and held-out test scenarios across tasks and conditions. Identify regressions, track progress across model versions, and communicate what improved, what remains unreliable, and where evidence is still limited. Provide clear recommendations that inform deployment decisions.
Improve evaluation tools and workflows. Use data analysis and lightweight scripting to improve reporting and reduce manual work. Partner with engineering on evaluation tooling, automation, and dashboards. Shorten the time from a new checkpoint to useful findings while preserving the quality of the evidence.
What You'll Bring
Experience in robotics, machine learning, applied research, or model evaluation, with direct ownership of evaluation design and analysis.
Demonstrated experience managing and developing a technical team, including setting priorities, giving feedback, and building effective working practices.

Model Evaluation Lead

Responsibilities

Qualification

Preferred

Company

Dyna Robotics

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