Drimva

Torc Robotics

Software Engineer, II - Autonomy Data

$139K–$167K

Remote - US, Blacksburg, VA +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026

Location
Remote - US, Blacksburg, VA
Remote - US
Experience
4+ years of data engineering experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 2+ years with a Master’s degree.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field, or a Master’s degree.
Visa sponsorship
Only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

About the job

Build and operate data infrastructure that ingests vehicle sensor logs and turns them into curated datasets and tools for autonomous-vehicle model training, evaluation, and debugging.

What you'll do

  • Build reliable sensor-data ingestion pipelines, data lake infrastructure, and data-quality checks.
  • Develop tooling and workflows for dataset curation, pseudo-labeling, visualization, and autonomy metrics.
  • Define data contracts and collaborate with autonomy teams on logging, datasets, and training interfaces.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 4+ years of data engineering experience, or a Master’s degree and 2+ years.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience building production-quality data pipelines.
  • Experience with cloud data infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tools.
  • Experience processing time-series and binary data; understanding of partitioning strategies and columnar storage formats.

Nice to have

  • Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, or sensor-driven systems; Foxglove or Rerun; or MCAP.
  • Experience with ML training data curation, including diversity sampling, pseudo-labeling, and dataset versioning.

Pay

$139,000 — $166,800 USD (base salary)

Tools

Python, SQL, AWS, S3, Glue Athena, redshift, Terraform, Cloud Formation

AI focus

Build and curate datasets for model training and evaluation, including pseudo-labeling workflows and metrics to guide labeling and assess model performance.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)