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Software Engineer - Kafka

Sunnyvale💼 Full-time💰 $153,000–$153,000🗓 2025-07-09 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building large-scale data platforms and machine learning infrastructure to process petabytes of multimodal sensor data from real-world driving scenarios for AI research and autonomy stack development.

Role type

Senior backend software engineer (data engineering & ML infrastructure)

Builds

Central data and machine learning platform supporting data ingestion, processing, storage, labeling infrastructure, and workflow orchestration for the autonomy stack.

Domain

Autonomous driving, physical AI, data engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Backend engineering, distributed computing frameworks, data processing systems, data curation and tagging, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Apache Spark, Apache Hudi, Trino, Apache Kafka, Flyte, data lake architectures, streaming systems, workflow orchestration

Technologies

Apache Spark, Apache Hudi, Trino, Apache Kafka, Flyte, Kubernetes, Python, Golang, Java

Responsibilities

Design and build large-scale data platforms handling petabytes of sensor data; work on data curation and tagging platforms for dataset discovery and labeling; build high-performance data processing systems to transform raw sensor data into training-ready formats.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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