Robotics Data Engineer - AI-Ready Multimodal Pipelines

Henderson Scott; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Healthcare & Insurance

Retirement plan

Work-Life Balance

Professional Development

Additional Benefits

Job summary

Henderson Scott is seeking an experienced Data Engineer with Robotics expertise to join a leading global technology services organisation, working on a large-scale data and AI initiative for a major enterprise. You will design and maintain scalable pipelines processing camera, LiDAR, GNSS, IMU, and telemetry data to create AI-ready datasets.

In this hybrid role, you will collaborate with AI/ML engineers and platform teams, implement data quality checks, metadata standards, and dataset

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Data Engineering experience with a Robotics focus.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
• Experience with unstructured and multimodal data (video, images, LiDAR, GNSS, IMU, telemetry).
• Proven ability to build end-to-end pipelines for AI/ML training datasets.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms, object storage, data lakes/lakehouses, and workflow orchestration tools.
• Solid understanding of data quality, metadata management, schema evolution, data lineage, and reproducible pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines processing camera, LiDAR, GNSS, IMU, and telemetry data.
• Develop ingestion, synchronisation, transformation, validation, and publishing workflows for AI training datasets.
• Prepare, normalise, enrich, and package multimodal data for annotation and machine learning applications.
• Implement automated data quality checks covering completeness, integrity, calibration, timestamps, and consistency.
• Establish reusable data models, metadata standards, data lineage, and dataset versioning practices.
• Optimise pipeline performance, reliability, monitoring, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, annotation teams, quality specialists, and platform engineers to resolve data challenges.
• Contribute to technical documentation, best practices, and continuous improvements.

Skills

Python

SQL

Distributed data processing

Robotics data engineering

Multimodal data

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

Henderson Scott is seeking an experienced Data Engineer with Robotics expertise to join a leading global technology services organisation, working on a large-scale data and AI initiative for a major enterprise. You will design and maintain scalable pipelines processing camera, LiDAR, GNSS, IMU, and telemetry data to create AI-ready datasets.

In this hybrid role, you will collaborate with AI/ML engineers and platform teams, implement data quality checks, metadata standards, and dataset