Senior Software Engineer

Roboflow; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel stipend

Health insurance

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Roboflow is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Roboflow Labs in San Francisco. You will build the platform that turns a frontier lab's data request into a shipped, quality-checked delivery.

You will own the Labs data platform end to end, including catalogs, delivery tooling, and the shared data foundation. Design pipelines that ingest, validate, package, and ship datasets with provenance, rights tracking, and audit trails to enable reliable, scalable deliveries.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building production software, with depth in backend, data pipelines, or full-stack engineering.
• Experience designing systems that process large volumes of data reliably.
• Strong product judgment.
• Nice to have: annotation or human-data platforms, marketplaces with payouts, ML training data pipelines, or CV tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own the Labs data platform end to end: catalog and delivery portal, collection and payout tooling, and the shared data foundation.
• Build delivery pipelines that ingest, validate, package, and ship datasets with provenance, rights tracking, and audit trails.
• Automate quality: consensus, review routing, fraud and duplicate detection, and visibility metrics.
• Partner with Strategic Projects Leads to turn each delivery into reusable infrastructure.
• Integrate with Roboflow's core platform and open-source tooling to benefit the product used by millions.
• Set the engineering bar for a new team: architecture, code review, observability, on-call and release practices.

Skills

Senior software engineering

Backend systems

Data pipelines

Full-stack engineering

Job description

Who We Are

Roboflow is building the visual cortex for AGI.

Every day, millions of developers and half of the Fortune 100 use Roboflow to count cells to accelerate cancer research, improve construction site safety, digitize floor plans, preserve coral reef populations, guide drone flight, and much more.

We have built the tools, community, and resources needed to make the world programmable with artificial intelligence. We're supported by great customers and investors, having raised over $100 million from Google Ventures, Craft Ventures, Sam Altman, Lachy Groom, Y Combinator, and more.

Roboflow Labs is our applied research unit. We train our own open models (RF-DETR). We build our own benchmarks grounded in real enterprise use cases (RF100-VL). And we partner with frontier labs to deliver the training data they need to advance the capabilities that drive the most value back to our customers.

Behind all of it is a global network of millions of Roboflow developers who have annotated billions of images and videos to date, as well as a proven enterprise business that is exploding as AI traverses the physical economy.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Software Engineer at Roboflow Labs, you'll build the platform that turns a frontier lab's data request into a shipped, quality-checked delivery.

• Design, build, and own the Labs data platform end to end: client-facing catalog and delivery portal, contributor-facing collection and payout tooling, and the shared data foundation underneath.

• Build delivery pipelines that ingest, validate, package, and ship datasets with the provenance, rights tracking, and audit trail that frontier lab procurement teams require

• Automate quality: consensus, review routing, fraud and duplicate detection, and the metrics that make dataset quality visible before it reaches a customer

• Partner with Strategic Projects Leads and operators to turn each new delivery into reusable infrastructure rather than a one-off

• Integrate with Roboflow's core platform and open-source tooling so that Labs benefits from, and contributes back to, the product millions of developers already use

• Set the engineering bar for a new team: architecture, code review, observability, and the on-call and release practices that let a small group ship reliably.

Who You Are

You are a senior full stack engineer who likes building zero-to-one. You have high agency and a bias toward action.

• 6+ years building production software, with real depth in backend systems, data pipelines, or full-stack engineering.

• Experience designing systems that process large volumes of data reliably.

• Strong product judgment.

• Nice to have: experience with annotation or human-data platforms, marketplaces with payouts, ML training data pipelines, or computer vision tooling

Where You'll Work

Roboflow is a fully distributed company with hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Singapore, and Brazil. Roboflow Labs works in person in San Francisco. We host full company retreats twice per year.

What You'll Receive

The target compensation for this role is $250,000 – $450,000 base salary commensurate with experience as well as equity in the company. Total cash comp is expected to scale significantly with growth of Roboflow Labs.

In addition, we offer generous perks and benefits. Below are some of the highlights:

• Generous stipends covering travel, productivity, tools, meals, and office.

• Up to 100% of your health insurance costs covered.

• Unlimited PTO - with an annual 2 week minimum.

• 12 weeks parental leave

Not sure if this is you?

We want a diverse, global team with a broad range of experience and perspectives. We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with you, find another team that might be a better fit, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time.

Learn More About Us

At Roboflow, we believe great ideas come from everywhere, and everyone. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.