Robotics Data Platform Engineer

WorldEngine AI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Frontier AI, a robotics-focused data infrastructure company in the San Francisco Bay Area, is seeking a Software Engineer to build scalable pipelines, formats, and storage for robotics data. You’ll bridge data systems with customer infrastructure and customize schemas for bespoke requests.

You will work on high-volume data pipelines, contribute to platform architecture decisions, and collaborate with engineers and researchers to ship data deliveries efficiently at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong backend and data engineering fundamentals in a modern language (Python, Go, Rust) and comfort operating production systems on AWS and GCP.
• Experience building and owning high-volume data pipelines, not just contributing to them.
• Experience with large binary formats, streaming ingestion, distributed batch processing, and object storage economics.
• Customer-facing instincts: you can lead a technical conversation, ask the right questions, and push back when a request is unreasonable.
• Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively with a product team, where requirements evolve with the customers and data types.

Responsibilities

• Own the reusable infrastructure behind robotics data deliveries: the processing, packaging, and delivery systems
• Format and transform datasets to per-client specification: MCAP and other container formats, custom schemas, field mappings, metadata, and versioning
• Work directly with customer engineering teams to scope and build bespoke schemas, custom fields, and one-off transforms where requirements are custom
• Build and operate the pipelines that move data from our systems into customer storage reliably at petabyte scale
• Partner with operations and product to turn evolving requirements into shipped data deliveries, and prototype quickly when a new data type or customer arrives
• Build automated validation techniques

Skills

Backend engineering

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Customer-facing skills

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Frontier AI, a robotics-focused data infrastructure company in the San Francisco Bay Area, is seeking a Software Engineer to build scalable pipelines, formats, and storage for robotics data. You’ll bridge data systems with customer infrastructure and customize schemas for bespoke requests.

You will work on high-volume data pipelines, contribute to platform architecture decisions, and collaborate with engineers and researchers to ship data deliveries efficiently at scale.