Senior ML Infra Lead: Data & Training Pipelines

Walden Robotics; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Company equity

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

Daily lunch

Job summary

Walden Robotics seeks a senior IC to design and scale data-loading, caching, and sharing infrastructure that feeds large training runs. You’ll lead this workstream with the data team and amplify research efforts through robust, scalable systems.

You will drive training reliability, performance optimization, and observability while mentoring engineers and setting technical standards across data and training infra.

Qualifications

• Systems / ML Infra experience
• Distributed-training performance understanding
• Ability to lead a work stream and make high-leverage infrastructure decisions
• Rigorous, measurement-driven approach to performance work
• Experience mentoring engineers and setting technical standards

Responsibilities

• Data Path: design and scale data-loading, sharing, and caching for large training runs
• Training Reliability: improve training-infra efficiency and reliability
• Bottleneck Removal: remove bottlenecks between data platform and training
• Observability: build tooling for training performance and failures visibility
• Technical Leadership: set standards and mentor engineers across data and training infra

Skills

ML infra

Distributed training

Technical judgment

Performance-driven

Leadership

Job description

Walden Robotics seeks a senior IC to design and scale data-loading, caching, and sharing infrastructure that feeds large training runs. You’ll lead this workstream with the data team and amplify research efforts through robust, scalable systems.

You will drive training reliability, performance optimization, and observability while mentoring engineers and setting technical standards across data and training infra.