Software Engineer Generalist

Praxy; San Mateo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

XDOF is hiring generalist software engineers to work across the full company stack, from data pipelines to hardware integrations. You’ll solve high-impact problems touching backend services, data processing, and orchestration for robotic workflows.

The role emphasizes speed in learning unfamiliar codebases, working across domains (backend, frontend, data, infra), and shipping software that can interact with physical hardware or handle compute-heavy workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS or related field.
• Fluency with Python and at least one other language.
• Ability to ramp up quickly in unfamiliar codebases and domains.
• Comfort across the stack without a narrow specialization.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services and APIs for data platform and customer products.
• Write data processing pipelines for robotic datasets.
• Develop orchestration for workflows with real robotic hardware.
• Contribute to the data collection app across the full stack.
• Script integrations between hardware, cloud, and software services.

Skills

Python

Generalist software engineer

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field

Job description

At XDOF, we’re at an inflection point. Frontier labs are racing to build general-purpose robots, and high-quality training data is the bottleneck. We’re building the foundation behind the foundation models – the data collection systems, operational capability, exabyte-scale data warehouse, and software toolchain – to help our partners drive the field forward.

We’re hiring generalist software engineers who can work across the entire company. Your work could touch anything in our software stack. Some weeks you might be developing our data pipeline, other weeks you might be scripting a hardware integration, or shipping a quick internal tool. There’s a huge range of problems to solve here, and the only constant is that you’ll have a problem to solve.

What You’ll Do

Generalist engineers work on whatever has the highest impact. Examples include:

• building backend services and APIs for our data platform and customer-facing product
• writing data processing pipelines to transform and validate incoming robotics datasets
• building the orchestration layer for workflows that leverage real robotic hardware
• contributing to our data collection application across the full stack
• scripting integrations between hardware systems, cloud infrastructure, and software services

About You

• bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field
• fluency with Python and at least one other language
• ability to quickly ramp up in unfamiliar codebases, tools, and problem domains
• comfort operating across the stack without needing a narrow specialization to be productive

You might be a good fit if you:

• have built and shipped software in fast-moving environments where your role wasn’t clearly defined
• have worked across multiple domains (backend, frontend, data, infra, scripting) even if you’re not an expert in all of them
• have experience building systems that interact with physical hardware or manage compute-heavy workloads
• have prior experience with AI, robotics, or large-scale data systems
• are very comfortable working in 0 1 environments
• are mission-driven and passionate about robotics: work at XDOF is fast-paced and constant. We hope you love what you’re going to be doing, because you’ll be doing a lot of it!