Senior Robot Data-Collection Systems Engineer

Welocalize, Inc; California; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Welocalize, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to own the data collection platform, teleoperation tooling, and fleet that powers our robot foundation models.

You will design, build, and maintain the end-to-end data pipeline, including automated validation, data formatting, and versioning, while leading a team of teleoperators. You will deploy and upgrade the stack across the fleet, ensure station health, and drive throughput and data quality.

Qualifications

• MS/BS with practical robotics software experience.
• 3+ years building software for real robot systems.
• Experience shipping a system others depend on daily.

Responsibilities

• Own the collection platform, teleoperation tooling, data pipeline and fleet stack.
• Design, build, and maintain software behind data collection stations (teleoperation, multi-camera recording, session tooling).
• Deploy and upgrade stack across fleet without interrupting collection; maintain workstations and containers.
• Own the data pipeline end-to-end: validation, conversion, upload, metadata, versioning.
• Build QA tooling to catch dropped frames, desync, bad calibration, and mislabeled episodes before data reaches training.
• Lead teleoperators: define SOPs, onboard on tasks, review session quality, unblock daily work.
• Ensure fleet reliability: calibration, firmware pipelines, sensor integration, fault analysis, vendor escalation.
• Bring up new stations and embodiments; report throughput and data health.

Skills

Python

Linux

ROS 2

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Telemetry tooling

Education

MS in CS/Robotics/EE/ME or BS with hands‑on

Tools

ROS 2 SDKs

Job description

Welocalize, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to own the data collection platform, teleoperation tooling, and fleet that powers our robot foundation models.

You will design, build, and maintain the end-to-end data pipeline, including automated validation, data formatting, and versioning, while leading a team of teleoperators. You will deploy and upgrade the stack across the fleet, ensure station health, and drive throughput and data quality.