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Senior Autonomy Engineer, Data Curation

San Mateo, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $170,000–$170,000🗓 2026-06-04 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build data pipelines and tooling to transform raw drone autonomy logs and media into high-quality, model-ready datasets for training AI models.

Role type

Senior individual contributor data engineering engineer (autonomy/robotics)

Builds

Production data pipelines, self-serve data discovery tooling, and versioned dataset infrastructure

Domain

Autonomous flight systems, computer vision, robotics data

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python or C++ programming, large-scale data pipeline construction (ETL/ELT, streaming/batch), data modeling and schema evolution, reliability engineering (monitoring, incident response), privacy and security implementation

Preferred skills

Autonomy/robotics data experience (flight logs, sensor fusion), labeling workflow expertise, vector/semantic search, hard-mining evaluation loops

Technologies

Python, C++, ETL/ELT, streaming/batch processing, data versioning tools

Responsibilities

Build and operate pipelines transforming raw autonomy logs into curated datasets; Develop tooling for fast data discovery and slicing; Improve dataset quality through versioning and automated checks; Apply privacy and security requirements including access controls and redaction; Create dashboards for cost, balance, and audit tracking

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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