Expert Perception Data Engineer (m/f/d)

driveblocks; München; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Virtual Stock Option Plan

Flexible working hours

Competitive compensation

Job summary

driveblocks is hiring an Expert Perception Data Engineer to scale data workflows powering off-road autonomy systems. You will own end-to-end data lifecycle from ingestion to validation, building datasets and semantic retrieval pipelines for complex scenarios.

Munich-based, you will drive automation and robustness in data operations and tooling for certification readiness. The role focuses on large-scale perception data pipelines, multimodal sensors, and cloud-native architectures to enable safe,

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience building large-scale data processing systems for ML or robotics applications.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++.
• Experience with multimodal sensor data (camera, LiDAR, radar).
• Familiarity with dataset management tooling, embeddings, vector databases, semantic retrieval, and similarity search systems.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to work independently in a fast-moving environment.
• Excellent communication skills across engineering and customer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Designing and scaling large-scale perception data pipelines for terabytes of sensor data.
• Developing automated dataset curation and scenario mining systems for edge cases and safety-critical situations.
• Building embeddings-based retrieval and semantic search pipelines for data selection and analysis.
• Maintaining tooling for dataset versioning, metadata management, annotation orchestration, and quality assurance for certifications.
• Improving infrastructure for high-throughput data processing, cloud-native workflows, and distributed compute pipelines.
• Driving automation around data operations, labeling processes, and deployment feedback loops from field operations.

Skills

Python

C++

Large-scale data pipelines

Machine Learning

Data processing

Cloud services

Ownership mindset

Communication

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in CS/Robotics/Engineering

Tools

Vector Databases

Embeddings

Semantic Retrieval

Job description

Your Role

As an Expert Perception Data Engineer you scale the data workflows that power the next-generation of off-road autonomy systems. You own the full data lifecycle from ingestion and curation to automated scenario mining, dataset generation, embeddings-based retrieval, and validation workflows.

Your Role

As an Expert Perception Data Engineer you scale the data workflows that power the next-generation of off-road autonomy systems. You own the full data lifecycle from ingestion and curation to automated scenario mining, dataset generation, embeddings-based retrieval, and validation workflows.

In this hands-on engineering role, your designs and implementations have a critical impact on enabling the robust and safe performance of our software in challenging off-road conditions. Your main tasks are:

• Designing and scaling large-scale perception data pipelines for terabytes of incoming multimodal sensor data.
• Developing automated dataset curation and scenario mining systems for edge cases and safety-critical situations.
• Building embeddings-based retrieval and semantic search pipelines for perception data selection and analysis.
• Maintain tooling for dataset versioning, metadata management, annotation orchestration, and quality assurance to meet certification requirements.
• Improving infrastructure for high-throughput data processing, cloud-native workflows, and distributed compute pipelines.
• Driving automation around data operations, labeling processes, and deployment feedback loops from field operations.

Your Background

• 6+ years of professional experience building large-scale data processing systems for machine learning or robotics applications
• Strong software engineering skills in Python and/or C++
• Experience working with multimodal sensor data such as camera, lidar, and radar
• Familiarity with dataset management tooling, embeddings, vector databases, semantic retrieval, and similarity search systems
• Strong ownership mindset and the ability to work independently in a fast-moving engineering environment
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly across engineering and customer-facing teams
• Degree in computer science, robotics, engineering or a related field(Bachelor, Master, or PhD)

We understand that not everyone will meet all the criteria! If you see yourself in these points, we’d love to learn more about you!

About Us

driveblocks develops off-road ground autonomy that works under harsh and challenging conditions. We build systems designed for operation in 3D terrain, vegetation, and heavy dust and dirt, where 100% reliability is core to success, even in GNSS-denied environments.

Working with multiple OEM partners across agriculture, construction, and defense, our focus is to deliver value to vehicle operators and solve the toughest challenges when deploying Physical AI in real world applications. Every deployment helps us to gather the operational data required to build the next generation of reliable and safe autonomous driving systems.

From our office in Munich, we operate as a focused, highly ambitious team with deep expertise in autonomy, Physical AI, and embedded software engineering. We move quickly and set high standards. If you want to build autonomy that is deployed, tested, and operated in the field - we’d love to hear from you!

Working at driveblocks

• Ownership of your work – Take responsibility for the full value chain
• Competitive Compensation & Benefits
• Participate in driveblocks’ success via a Virtual Stock Option Plan
• Flexible working hours