Data Infrastructure Engineer

Job description

**About the team** Droyd builds autonomous robotic systems that take on repetitive manual work in real environments. Our robots generate high-rate video, telemetry, and demonstration data every time they move — and that data is what trains our models. Our software team builds the systems that connect robots to learning. Data infrastructure sits at the center of that loop: what gets captured, how it moves, and how fast it becomes training signal. This work runs on real machines, not benchmarks. **About the role** As a Staff Software Engineer on data infrastructure at Droyd, you'll own the pipelines that carry data from robot to model. You'll architect ingestion from edge devices, streaming transport, storage, and retrieval — and make fleet data immediately usable for training and evaluation. You'll work in person with a small, senior team across robotics, ML, and hardware. Your work will ship directly to deployed systems. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We're an in-person company. We build faster that way. **In this role, you'll** - Architect, build, and maintain highly-available data pipelines for robot video, telemetry, and demonstration data - Own the path from robot to training set: edge ingestion, MoQ/WebTransport streaming, storage, indexing, and retrieval - Work with ML and robotics engineers to make fleet data immediately usable for training and evaluation - Improve throughput, reliability, and cost across the full data path - Build tooling that lets the team find, inspect, and trust the data - Help set technical direction for data and infrastructure as the fleet scales **We're looking for someone who** - Has 5+ years of software development experience - Has hands-on experience architecting and optimizing large-scale data pipelines - Is proficient in Rust, Go, or Python — Rust is a big plus - Has a strong sense of ownership and can drive complex systems end to end - Communicates clearly and works well with ML, robotics, and hardware engineers - Bonus: experience with streaming video, telemetry-heavy systems, or robotics/edge data **About Droyd** Droyd builds autonomous robotic systems to automate manual work for enterprises. We design the hardware, write the control stack, collect our own data, and train models that run under real-world constraints. If we do this right, robots stop being demos and start being tools people rely on every day. Join us and help build systems that actually ship.