Senior Data Platform Engineer - Pipelines & Infra

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

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.