Platform Engineer – Robot Data Infrastructure (human)

The role

You will design, build, and operate end-to-end data infrastructure. This involves managing the pipeline from physical data collection to training-ready formats for robot learning.

What you will do

• Define and evolve internal data formats for multi-modal sensor streams.
• Build services for edge-to-cloud ingestion and transformation.
• Provision and manage on-premise compute via infrastructure-as-code.
• Handle containerized deployments and rolling updates across distributed sites.
• Develop backend services, shared libraries, CLI tools, and developer documentation.
• Orchestrate vision-language agents for multi-agent annotation.
• Work with hardware, robotics, and AI/data science teams.

Required qualifications

• Strong Python and TypeScript skills in production backend systems.
• Hands-on cloud experience.
• Experience with ROS 2/DDS or similar robotics middleware.
• Familiarity with video/audio codecs and compression (FFmpeg, PyAV, H.264/AV1).
• Ansible, Docker, and Terraform for fleet management.
• DevOps mindset regarding CI/CD, automation, and keeping things shippable.

Nice to have

• AWS preferred
• Interest in or exposure to ML data pipelines and robot learning