Mindrobotics
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Palo Alto. Posted 9 months ago
The role
You will build and operate pipelines that turn raw sensor and demonstration data into training-ready datasets. You will work on ingestion, processing, quality filtering, and dataloaders for large-scale multimodal datasets.
What you will do
- Build and scale ingestion pipelines for high-volume, high-dimensional sensor data.
- Build and maintain data quality and curation systems.
- Contribute to storage and retrieval design for large-scale multimodal datasets.
- Build and operate distributed processing infrastructure.
- Debug production issues in live data pipelines.
- Work with modeling/research partners to translate needs into working pipelines.
- Participate in design and code review across the data infrastructure stack.
Required qualifications
- 2+ years of software engineering experience, with some exposure to data pipelines, data engineering, or backend systems.
- Strong programming fundamentals in Python, with the ability to write performant, production-grade data processing code.
- Experience with at least one distributed data processing framework (e.g., Spark, Ray, Dask, or Flink), or strong fundamentals and willingness to ramp up quickly.
- Familiarity with data storage concepts — object storage, data lake table formats, and warehouse vs. lake tradeoffs.
- Bias for ownership: you've taken features or systems from prototype to production.
- Clear communicator who collaborates well with research/modeling partners and more senior teammates.
Nice to have
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)
- Experience with streaming ingestion for high-volume, near-real-time data
- Experience building automated data quality/curation systems (statistical filtering, anomaly detection, deduplication, or using ML models in an annotation/filtering pipeline)
- Experience with robotics- or embodied-AI-specific data (multi-embodiment datasets, teleoperation/demonstration data, egocentric video)
About the company
Mind Robotics is building Physical AI for real-world industrial deployment, starting with the factory floor. They believe the hardest problems in AI are solved when researchers and engineers are hands-on with the physical world every day.