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Data Platform Engineer, Autonomy Analytics
Irvine, CA +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 10, 2026
- Location
- Irvine, CA
Peoria, Illinois - Experience
- 3–5+ years in data engineering or backend engineering focused on pipelines and infrastructure.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Designs and builds data ingestion platforms, integrations, and developer tools for robotics data across edge and cloud systems.
What you'll do
- Build reusable ingestion SDKs, APIs, and services for robotics data sources.
- Integrate robot, fleet, simulation, storage, and downstream analytics systems; maintain reliable data contracts, retries, backfills, and monitoring.
- Optimize data pipelines for performance, scale, and cost across fleet deployments.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 3–5+ years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering focused on pipelines and infrastructure.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
- Production experience with streaming systems and orchestration tools; experience with a modern warehouse or lakehouse, cloud object storage, integrations, and data quality.
Nice to have
- Experience with robotics, autonomy, automotive, or telemetry-heavy operational data.
- Familiarity with ROS/ROS2, MCAP, or rosbag.
Tools
Python, SQL, C++, Scala, Java, Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, Airflow
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