Perceptron AI
Staff Software Engineer, Data Systems
$200K–$300K
Bellevue, WA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building backend systems or large-scale data pipelines.
About the job
Designs and builds production data infrastructure for collecting, processing, and managing large multimodal datasets used by ML research and evaluation teams.
What you'll do
- Develop distributed ingestion and processing pipelines for multimodal data from diverse sources.
- Parse, filter, transform, and deduplicate datasets; use AI models for augmentation and synthetic data generation.
- Design for dataset reproducibility and traceability, and build tools for exploring and managing datasets.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience building backend systems or large-scale data pipelines.
- Experience building distributed systems that ingest, process, or manage very large datasets.
- Comfort working with high-volume, time-aligned multimodal data and integrating ML systems such as LLMs or vision models into data workflows.
- Track record of technical leadership, owning large systems, and mentoring engineers.
Pay
$200,000 to $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Rust, AWS, Azure, Nebius, S3, NFS
AI focus
Use AI models for data augmentation, including synthetic data generation, and integrate ML systems such as LLMs or vision models into data-processing workflows.
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