WorldEngine AI
Software Engineer, Robotics Data
$130K–$400K
SF Bay Area · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
About the job
Build and operate reusable backend infrastructure and high-volume pipelines that process, transform, validate, and deliver robotics datasets to customer specifications.
What you'll do
- Own systems for processing, packaging, and delivering robotics data; build reliable pipelines to customer storage at petabyte scale.
- Transform datasets to client specifications, including formats, schemas, fields, metadata, and versioning.
- Work with customer engineering, operations, and product teams to scope custom requests and turn changing needs into scalable platform features.
What they ask for
- Strong backend and data engineering fundamentals in a modern language such as Python, Go, or Rust, and comfort operating production systems on AWS and GCP.
- Experience building and owning high-volume data pipelines.
- Experience with large binary formats, streaming ingestion, distributed batch processing, and object storage economics.
- Ability to lead technical customer conversations, handle ambiguity, and ship iteratively.
Nice to have
- Experience with robotics or AV data formats and tools such as MCAP, ROS, protobuf, or Foxglove.
- Experience with multimodal data, multi-sensor data, forward-deployed or delivery engineering, computer vision, or multimodal ML.
Pay
$130K – $400K (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Rust, AWS, GCP, MCAP, ROS, protobuf
AI focus
Develop infrastructure for physical-AI robotics data, including configurable data pipelines and automated validation; computer vision or multimodal ML exposure is a nice-to-have.
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