Staff Engineer, Physical AI Data Platform

FoodLabs; Paris; Sur place; EUR 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

FoodLabs in Paris is seeking a technical leader to shape data infrastructure for frontier AI and robotics. You will design and build large-scale data ingestion, storage, and processing systems that power real-world datasets with strict provenance and privacy.

You will own the architecture, work directly with researchers and customers, and recruit the first engineers. This founder-friendly role offers meaningful equity and a chance to influence the direction of the company from first principles

Qualifications

• Built large data systems and distributed pipelines.
• Experience with geospatial, imagery, or robotics data.
• Created products or platforms others rely on.
• Active hands-on coding and debugging.
• Ability to test views quickly and adapt.
• Capable of architectural decisions and raising the bar.
• Founder mindset with ownership of outcomes.
• Location: Paris preferred; Europe possible with time in Paris; English required; French is a plus.

Responsabilités

• Capture data at scale from phones, cameras, wearables, and edge devices.
• Own the data layer: storage, geo-indexing, versioning, verification, search, API.
• Build ML enhancements for anonymisation and quality scoring.
• Develop contributor SDKs and onboarding tooling.
• Define infrastructure compute: edge vs cloud, GPU pipelines.
• Hire and mentor the first engineers, set engineering bar.
• Set architecture and roadmap aligned with customer needs.
• Ownership and equity as a founder.

Connaissances

Infrastructure depth

Physical-world data

0 to 1

Hands-on coding

Judgment under uncertainty

Technical leadership

Founder mindset

Location Paris

Description du poste

FoodLabs in Paris is seeking a technical leader to shape data infrastructure for frontier AI and robotics. You will design and build large-scale data ingestion, storage, and processing systems that power real-world datasets with strict provenance and privacy.

You will own the architecture, work directly with researchers and customers, and recruit the first engineers. This founder-friendly role offers meaningful equity and a chance to influence the direction of the company from first principles