Onsite Senior Robotics Data Collection Engineer

Welocalize, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 119,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Welocalize, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the systems powering a large-scale data collection operation. You’ll design and maintain the teleoperation stack, data pipeline, and fleet tooling for on-site telemetry in Santa Clara.

The role is a 12-month full-time contract (W-2) with standard hours, onsite schedule, and a rate of US$105 per hour. You will lead a small team of teleoperators and own end-to-end reliability of the platform.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building software for real robot systems.
• A system you designed and shipped that others depended on daily.
• Strong Python and Linux; Docker, git, CI, and SSH-based fleet administration.
• Robot middleware and real-time multi-sensor recording — ROS 2 or equivalent vendor SDKs.
• Experience supporting a data collection or teleoperation operation: you have built the tools operators depend on and owned throughput and quality numbers.
• Comfortable around robot hardware — arms or humanoids, dexterous hands, RGB-D cameras, and the calibration that keeps them honest.
• Able to lead operators without formal authority: you write clear SOPs, train people, and communicate status without being asked.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the software behind our data collection stations — teleoperation stack, multi-camera recording, and session tooling.
• Deploy and upgrade that stack across the fleet without stopping collection; keep workstations, containers, and networking healthy.
• Own the data pipeline end to end: automated validation, conversion into our dataset format, upload, metadata, and versioning.
• Build the QA tooling that catches dropped frames, stream desync, bad calibration, and mislabeled episodes before data reaches training.
• Direct a team of teleoperators — define task protocols and SOPs, onboard them on new tasks and embodiments, review session quality, and unblock them daily.
• Own fleet reliability: calibration and firmware pipelines, sensor and end-effector integration, root-cause analysis of recurring faults, and vendor escalation.
• Bring up new stations and new embodiments; report throughput, yield, and data health to the research team.

Skills

Python

Linux

ROS 2

Docker

Git

CI

SSH

Education

MS/BS in CS/Robotics/EE/ME

Tools

Robot middleware

Job description

Welocalize, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the systems powering a large-scale data collection operation. You’ll design and maintain the teleoperation stack, data pipeline, and fleet tooling for on-site telemetry in Santa Clara.

The role is a 12-month full-time contract (W-2) with standard hours, onsite schedule, and a rate of US$105 per hour. You will lead a small team of teleoperators and own end-to-end reliability of the platform.