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Software Engineer (SDS Core - Data and Test Flywheel)

Sunnyvale💼 Full-time💰 $125,000–$125,000🗓 2026-02-10 → 2026-09-25

Core

Building large-scale data processing pipelines and automated systems to connect vehicle data collection, training, and model iteration for autonomous driving stacks.

Role type

Senior data infrastructure engineer (ML flywheel)

Builds

Automated data selection, curation, labeling, and testing loops for autonomous vehicle models

Domain

Autonomous driving / Physical AI / Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, distributed systems, data pipelines (ETL), Spark, Airflow, Kafka, large-scale data processing, ML workflow automation

Preferred skills

Automotive/AV systems, ML platforms for large-scale products, highly automated ML training workflows, data flywheel architecture

Technologies

Python, Spark, Airflow, Kafka

Responsibilities

Build and maintain large-scale data processing pipelines for ingesting and curating driving datasets; Design and implement systems that automate data selection, labeling, training, and testing loops; Collaborate with modeling teams to improve training efficiency and model performance; Develop core infrastructure closing the loop between real-world test results and new model deployments; Mentor junior engineers and define best practices for data-centric development

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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