Software Engineer, Infrastructure

xdof.ai; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

xdof.ai is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer in San Mateo, California, to build the foundational data collection systems for robotics and AI. Candidates should hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and be fluent in Python.

This role involves designing dev platforms and supporting large-scale data processing in a fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about robotics and eager to work on groundbreaking projects, we'd love to hear from you!

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale data processing and distributed systems.
• Prior experience with AI or robotics.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Build the platform to support data collection at increasing scales.
• Design an internal dev platform for researchers.

Skills

Fluency with Python

Education

Bachelor's degree 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.

Infrastructure engineers build the platform that support our ever-increasing scale of data collection.

Sample Projects

• building an orchestration system to run computations upon data ingestion
• designing an internal dev platform for researchers to test their ideas over the dataset

Qualifications

• a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
• fluency with Python

You might be a good fit if you:

have had previous experience with large-scale data processing and distributed systems

have prior experience with AI or robotics

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!