Member of Technical Staff: Data Infrastructure & Data Operations

walden-robotics; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual cash bonus

Company equity

Insurance programs

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

Daily lunch

Job summary

Walden Robotics is seeking a Senior IC to architect and scale the data foundation that powers our robot models. You will own ingestion, storage, transformation, and data operations, ensuring high-quality data at scale for multimodal sensor, action logs, and media.

Work closely with ML teams to translate needs into durable infrastructure, balancing reliability, performance, and cost. Join a team driven by innovation and collaboration at Walden Robotics in Cambridge.

Qualifications

• Strong background with production systems at real scale.
• Extensive experience developing cloud-based data infrastructure for automated data pipelines.
• Experience owning a data platform's reliability and cost over time.
• Comfort operating close to ML teams and translating their needs into durable infrastructure.
• Ability to lead a work stream and make high-leverage architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Data Pipelines: Design and scale high-throughput pipelines for petabyte-scale multimodal data.
• Platform Ownership: Keep the platform the ML teams build on reliable, fast, and cost-efficient.
• Quality & Compliance: Implement the platform-level controls for data quality, lineage, and compliance, built to enforce the quality standards the annotation and ML teams define.
• Discoverability: Build tooling that lets ML teams find, understand, and trust their data.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Data Infrastructure

Platform Ownership

ML adjacency

Technical Judgment

Job description

At Walden Robotics, we envision a world where general-purpose robots dramatically improve the quality of life for all people—supporting us at home, at work, in factories, on farms, and beyond. To accomplish this, we are building a team of exceptional professionals who combine world-class technical skills with creative vision, grounded in humility and collaboration.

Position Summary:

You’ll build and scale the data foundation alongside the world-class team training our robot models—the systems that move our multimodal data (robot sensor and action logs, plus web-scale image, video, and text) into the models they build. As a senior IC, you’ll own the architecture and reliability at the core of that platform—ingestion, storage, transformation, and the data operations that keep quality high at scale—working hand in hand with the teams who produce and depend on that data.

Core Responsibilities:

• Data Pipelines: Design and scale high-throughput pipelines for petabyte-scale multimodal data.
• Platform Ownership: Keep the platform the ML teams build on reliable, fast, and cost-efficient.
• Quality & Compliance: Implement the platform-level controls for data quality, lineage, and compliance, built to enforce the quality standards the annotation and ML teams define.
• Discoverability: Build tooling that lets ML teams find, understand, and trust their data.

Required Qualifications:

• Data / Distributed Systems: Strong background with production systems at real scale.
• Data Infrastructure Development: Extensive experience developing cloud-based data infrastructure for automated data pipelines.
• Platform Ownership: Experience owning a data platform's reliability and cost over time.
• ML Adjacency: Comfort operating close to ML teams and translating their needs into durable infrastructure.
• Technical Judgment: The ability to lead a work stream and make high-leverage architectural decisions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Multimodal or robotics/sensor data experience.
• Familiarity with compliance and KPI-tracking requirements in customer-facing deployments.
• Experience with data-lineage, catalog, or governance systems.

Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program, including salary, annual cash bonus, company equity, company-subsidized insurance programs, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, daily lunch, and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.

Walden Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail].

Walden Robotics participates in E-Verify. If you receive an offer of employment from Walden, you will need to go through the E-Verify process of digital verification of your employment authorization documents as provided on the Form I-9. Participation in E-Verify does not limit your right to work and verification will only be completed after you become an employee with Walden Robotics.