Senior Robotics Data Systems Engineer - Onsite Teleoperation

Welocalize; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Welocalize is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the systems powering a large-scale data collection operation, including the collection platform, operator tooling, data pipeline, and fleet infrastructure. This role directs a dedicated operator team, building what they run on and owning the outputs of the system.

Location is onsite in Santa Clara, CA, with a 12-month contract and a rate of $105/hour. Candidates should have 3+ years building software for real robot systems and strong

Qualifications

• MS in CS, Robotics, EE/ME, or related field (or BS with equivalent hands-on experience).
• 3+ years building software for real robot systems — not simulation only.
• A system you designed and shipped that others depended on daily, and that you kept running.
• Strong Python and Linux; Docker, git, CI, and SSH-based fleet administration.
• Robot middleware and real-time multi-sensor recording — ROS 2 or equivalent vendor SDKs.
• Experience supporting a data collection or teleoperation operation: you have built the tools operators depend on and owned throughput and quality numbers.
• Comfortable around robot hardware — arms or humanoids, dexterous hands, RGB-D cameras, and the calibration that keeps them honest.
• Able to lead operators without formal authority: you write clear SOPs, train people, and communicate status without being asked.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the software behind our data collection stations — teleoperation stack, multi-camera recording, and session tooling
• Deploy and upgrade that stack across the fleet without stopping collection; keep workstations, containers, and networking healthy
• Own the data pipeline end to end: automated validation, conversion into our dataset format, upload, metadata, and versioning
• Build the QA tooling that catches dropped frames, stream desync, bad calibration, and mislabeled episodes before data reaches training
• Direct a team of teleoperators — define task protocols and SOPs, onboard them on new tasks and embodiments, review session quality, and unblock them daily
• Own fleet reliability: calibration and firmware pipelines, sensor and end-ele fiance integration, root-cause analysis of recurring faults, and vendor escalation
• Bring up new stations and new embodiments; report throughput, yield, and data health to the research team

Skills

Python

Linux

Docker

Git

CI/CD

SSH administration

ROS 2

Education

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

Tools

ROS 2

Job description

Welocalize is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the systems powering a large-scale data collection operation, including the collection platform, operator tooling, data pipeline, and fleet infrastructure. This role directs a dedicated operator team, building what they run on and owning the outputs of the system.

Location is onsite in Santa Clara, CA, with a 12-month contract and a rate of $105/hour. Candidates should have 3+ years building software for real robot systems and strong