Sr./Staff Software Engineer (Data Team)

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Holiday entitlement

Private healthcare

Pension scheme with company match

Free daily breakfast

Catered lunch

Snacks in-office

Job summary

the company in London is hiring a Sr./Staff Software Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. You’ll help build a data platform powering the company robots and scale data processing across petabyte-scale datasets.

You will define architecture, make key decisions, and work closely with ML researchers to improve MLOps and evaluation workflows while delivering transparent data dashboards for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in building data pipelines and data platforms.
• Experience with ML workflows, MLOps, or ML model evaluation pipelines is a plus.
• Comfort with petabyte-scale datasets and distributed compute.
• Strong collaboration with ML researchers and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build the Capability Factory internal platform to enable engineers and operators to teach HMND robots new skills at scale.
• Curate, preprocess, and manage large-scale datasets for robot training toward petabyte scale.
• Design and operate scalable data pipelines and the compute infrastructure that powers them.
• Ensure the quality, accuracy, and consistency of training data across projects and robot platforms.
• Collaborate with machine learning teams to shape the Capability Factory and build evaluation workflows.
• Build data warehouse solutions and BI dashboards for stakeholders across the organization.
• Establish and uphold best practices for data management including versioning, access control, security, and compliance.

Skills

Data engineering

ML pipelines

Distributed compute

Collaboration with ML teams

Tools

Big data tools

Job description

Here at the company, we believe in a future where robots amplify human potential. That’s why we’ve set out on a mission to build the world’s most capable, commercially‑scalable, and safe the company robots. We’re bringing that mission to life with HMND‑01 Alpha – our rapidly developed the company platform now running in real industrial pilots – and we’re growing the team to take it even further.

About the Role

We're hiring a Sr./Staff Software Engineer to join our Data Engineering team based in London.

As the Data Engineering Lead, we strive to create the world’s leading, commercially scalable, safe, and advanced the company robots that seamlessly integrate into daily life and amplify human capacity.

We’re looking for experienced Engineers to help build our data platform from the ground up. You’ll have the opportunity to define its architecture, make key decisions, and shape how we handle and process petabyte‑scale data in the near future.

What You’ll Do

• Build the Capability Factory – an internal platform designed for everyone from software engineers to non‑technical operators, enabling the entire organization to teach HMND robots new skills at scale, from raw data all the way to deployed capabilities.
• Curate, preprocess, and manage large‑scale datasets for the company robot training – a corpus of robot telemetry growing toward petabyte scale.
• Design and operate highly scalable data pipelines and the compute infrastructure that powers them, ensuring reliability and throughput as data volume and team demands grow.
• Ensure the quality, accuracy, and consistency of training data across multiple concurrent projects and robot platforms.
• Collaborate with machine learning teams to shape the Capability Factory, streamline MLOps, and build the evaluation workflows that close the loop between training runs and real‑world robot performance.
• Build data warehouse solutions and BI dashboards that give stakeholders across the organization clear visibility into data collection, model progress, and operational health.
• Establish and uphold best practices for data management – versioning, access control, security, and compliance.

Nice to Have

• ML infrastructure or MLOps experience – understanding of how training jobs run, how model artifacts are managed, and what makes an evaluation pipeline trustworthy; you’ve worked alongside or directly supported ML researchers.
• Distributed compute frameworks – experience with large‑scale parallel data processing, whether for data transformation, model training, or evaluation.
• Domain knowledge in robotics or embodied AI – familiarity with robot data formats, sensor telemetry, or the sim‑to‑real evaluation loop is a significant head start.
• BI and data warehouse experience – building data models and dashboards that translate raw operational data into decisions for non‑technical stakeholders.
• Dual‑cloud or multi‑cloud storage – experience reasoning about cost, latency, and consistency tradeoffs across storage providers.
• Frontend product sense – beyond just shipping features, you have opinions about what makes an internal tool actually usable by non‑engineers.

What We Offer

• Competitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale.
• 30+ days off, including 23 days annual leave, all UK bank holidays, and additional company closure days (including Christmas–New Year shutdown).
• Private healthcare, including virtual and in‑person care.
• Pension scheme with 8% total contribution (5% employee, 3% employer) on full earnings.
• Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in‑office.
• Work at the frontier – collaborate daily with world‑class engineers, researchers, and product experts building the next generation of AI and the company robotics.
• Real ownership – direct access to founding leadership, meaningful input on product direction, and the ability to drive key initiatives from day one.