Data Platform Engineer, Autonomy Analytics

Job description

### What You'll Get To Do - Design and build the data platform, frameworks, and developer tooling that power ingestion across Field AI. - Handle the realities of field data: intermittent connectivity, large sensor payloads (LiDAR, camera, IMU), edge-to-cloud synchronization, and backfill from offline deployments. - Develop reusable ingestion SDKs, APIs, and services that enable teams to onboard new robotics data sources with minimal custom code. - Build and maintain integrations across heterogeneous sources: robot/edge systems, fleet management and deployment tooling, simulation outputs, and cloud object storage. - Integrate the platform with downstream consumers: BI tools, ML training and evaluation pipelines, labeling systems, and issue tracking. - Develop connectors and APIs (REST/gRPC, webhooks, CDC) so internal teams can feed data in and consume curated datasets reliably. - Own integration reliability end to end: schema contracts, versioning, retries, backfills, and monitoring. - Optimize pipeline performance, scalability, and cost across growing fleet deployments. ### What You Have - 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** (C++, Scala, or Java a plus). - Production experience with **streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub)** and orchestration tools such as **Airflow or Dagster**. - Experience with a modern **warehouse or lakehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift)** and cloud object storage at scale. - Experience building integrations across systems: third-party APIs, internal services, and **CDC/ELT tooling (Fivetran, Airbyte, Debezium, or custom connectors)**. - Experience building for data quality: testing, monitoring, lineage, and incident response. - Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in interdisciplinary teams. ### The Extras That Set You Apart - Experience with **robotics, autonomy, automotive, or other telemetry-heavy operational data** (bag files, fleet logs, time-series sensor data). - Familiarity with robotics middleware and log formats such as **ROS/ROS2, MCAP, or rosbag**.