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Software Engineer, Robotics Data

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build the data backbone for physical AI by creating pipelines that ingest raw multi-sensor capture (video, depth, inertial, audio) from the field and deliver validated, privacy-safe datasets to frontier labs.

Role type

Senior backend/data engineer specializing in physical-world sensor data pipelines

Builds

End-to-end sensor data pipelines, automated QC systems, dataset schemas, and shared processing components for petabyte-scale data

Domain

AI data infrastructure, robotics, physical-world sensing, multi-sensor fusion

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

High-volume data pipeline ownership, video/sensor data processing at scale, Python, AWS, distributed batch processing, object storage economics, automated quality control design, data schema/versioning/provenance management, privacy redaction, format packaging

Preferred skills

Robotics data formats (MCAP, ROS bags, protobuf, Foxglove), camera geometry, multi-sensor calibration and synchronization, computer vision, multimodal ML, VLM-based labeling or QC, data engines for AV/robotics/egocentric video

Technologies

Python, AWS, MCAP, ROS bags, protobuf, Foxglove

Responsibilities

Ingest raw multi-sensor capture from field devices, design automated QC for timing/sync/calibration health, establish dataset schemas and versioning, build shared processing components for privacy redaction and encoding, integrate VLM-assisted pre-labeling into production workflows

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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