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Software Engineer, II - Autonomy Data

Blacksburg, VA💼 Full-time💰 $139,000–$139,000🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and operate data infrastructure to transform raw vehicle sensor logs into curated datasets for autonomous truck perception, planning, and simulation.

Role type

Senior IC data engineer (autonomy)

Builds

Data lakes, ingestion pipelines, dataset curation tooling, and visualization dashboards for autonomous vehicle software

Domain

Autonomous driving / Trucking / Cloud Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, SQL, cloud data infrastructure (AWS), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), data partitioning strategies, columnar storage formats (Parquet, Orc), time-series and binary data processing, open-source tooling integration, data quality monitoring, lineage tracking

Preferred skills

autonomous vehicles, robotics, sensor-driven systems, Foxglove or Rerun (custom extensions), MCAP CLI, data curation for ML training (diversity sampling, pseudo-labeling, versioning)

Technologies

AWS (S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift), Terraform, CloudFormation, Parquet, Orc, Foxglove, Rerun, MCAP

Responsibilities

Design data lake schema and partitioning strategies; build end-to-end pipelines for high-bandwidth sensor log ingestion; implement data validation and integrity checks; build tooling for dataset curation and pseudo-labeling; deploy visualization tooling for log review and debugging; define data contracts with model training teams; surface data roadmap findings to leadership

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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