Forward Deployed Data Delivery Engineer

Kindredventures; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mecka AI in New York seeks a Forward Deployed Data Delivery Engineer to turn messy real-world capture data into model-ready datasets, owning the relationship end-to-end and delivering customer value with high trust.

You’ll design and operate production data systems, build robust pipelines across ingestion, transformation, QA, and export; define data contracts, provenance, and reproducible builds; and partner with ML teams to improve signal when needed.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience designing, building, debugging, and operating production software systems.
• Proven experience owning substantial technical projects from concept to production support.
• Experience working with external customers or partners to translate requirements into solutions and deliver.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of customer datasets, including requirements, validation, iteration, and final handoff.
• Be the technical point of contact, communicating clearly, setting expectations, and closing loops.
• Turn one-off customer needs into durable internal tooling, pipelines, and standards for faster future deliveries.
• Build, debug, and harden data pipelines across ingestion, transformation, QA, and export.

Skills

Production systems

Data pipelines

Customer delivery

Architectural decisions

External collaboration

Tools

SQL databases

NoSQL databases

Object storage

Job description

About Mecka AI

Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI.
We design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems.
We work closely with frontier robotics teams to bridge real-world data, simulation, learning-based systems, and deployed hardware.

Mecka AI is hiring a Forward Deployed Data Delivery Engineer to operate on the frontier with customers: take messy, real-world capture data - much of it raw video - and turn it into beautiful, reliable, model-ready datasets, while owning the technical relationship end-to-end.

This is a senior, high-trust role with significant autonomy. You'll combine data engineering, hands-on analysis, and product judgment to deliver datasets customers can train and ship on - and to make our delivery systems more reliable every time you do.

What You'll Work On

Customer Delivery & Technical Ownership

• Own the end-to-end delivery of customer datasets: requirements, validation, iteration, final handoff.

• Be the technical point of contact: communicate clearly, set expectations, and close loops.

• Turn one-off customer needs into durable internal improvements - tooling, pipelines, and standards that make every future delivery faster and safer.

Data Systems & Pipelines

• Build, debug, and harden data pipelines across ingestion, transformation, QA, and export.

• Work fluently across storage and database paradigms (SQL + NoSQL + object storage) and pick the right tool for the job.

• Establish reliable dataset "contracts": schemas, versioning, provenance, and reproducible builds - so every dataset has a clear source of truth.

Dataset Quality & Signal

• Define and measure what makes a dataset good for a given task: coverage, diversity, balance, label fidelity, and fitness for the customer's model.

• Build quality scorecards and coverage/diversity reports that make dataset health legible to customers and internal teams.

• Query and slice large corpora to maximize customer fit - surface exactly the data that matches a target distribution, not just bulk volume.

• When the signal a customer needs is missing or weak in the raw video, diagnose it and partner with the perception/ML pipeline teams to extract or improve it upstream.

Who You Are

Required Background

• Significant hands-on experience designing, building, debugging, and operating production software systems. You should be comfortable going deep with senior engineers on architecture, APIs, data flows, failure modes, reliability, and technical tradeoffs - not just integrating or demonstrating existing tools.

• Proven experience personally owning substantial technical projects from an ambiguous problem through architecture, implementation, deployment, and production support.

• Direct experience working with external customers or partners to understand technical requirements, translate them into solutions, and remain accountable through successful delivery. Internal ticket-based support alone is not sufficient.

• High agency and a strong generalist bent - comfortable moving across data, delivery process, and whatever else the problem needs, taking on problems beyond your defined scope without waiting to be asked.

Nice to Have

• Working literacy in video understanding, embeddings, and encoders - enough to reason about what a dataset teaches a model and where signal is missing.

• Experience building data-quality, coverage, or diversity tooling.

• Background adjacent to ML, computer vision, or robotics data.

Why This Role

• Own the customer-facing delivery loop for world-class robotics datasets.

• High autonomy, high trust, and direct impact on customer success and revenue.

• Work across the full stack of the problem: data, pipelines, analysis, and delivery quality.

• Sit at the exact point where raw, messy, real-world data becomes the thing that makes embodied-AI models work.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive candidate experience. Should you require any accommodation whatsoever during the interview process, please inform us without any hesitation. Mecka is dedicated to ensuring equal treatment and opportunity in all phases of recruitment, selection, and employment, in compliance with employment law. We do not discriminate based on gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other protected category. Mecka is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, fostering a culture of inclusivity and maintaining a work environment that is free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Mecka uses artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly to support administrative and efficiency-focused aspects of our recruitment process. This includes activities such as drafting job descriptions, generating interview questions, note-taking and recordings, and supporting sourcing and scheduling workflows. All candidate evaluations, interviews, and hiring decisions are made by members of the Mecka team. While AI tools may assist with screening and assessment, they do not replace human judgment in selection decisions. Our use of AI is intended to streamline routine tasks, improve consistency, and enhance the overall candidate experience. We are committed to upholding principles of fairness, transparency, and accountability in all hiring activities. Mecka regularly reviews its recruitment practices to mitigate bias and to ensure alignment with applicable laws and evolving best practices.