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Our robots generate high-rate video, telemetry, and demonstration data every time they move - and that data is what trains our models.\nOur software team builds the systems that connect robots to learning. Data infrastructure sits at the center of that loop: what gets captured, how it moves, and how fast it becomes training signal. This work runs on real machines, not benchmarks.\nAbout the role\nAs a Staff Software Engineer on data infrastructure at Droyd, you'll own the pipelines that carry data from robot to model. You'll architect ingestion from edge devices, streaming transport, storage, and retrieval - and make fleet data immediately usable for training and evaluation.\nYou'll work in person with a small, senior team across robotics, ML, and hardware. Your work will ship directly to deployed systems.\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA. We're an in-person company. We build faster that way.\nIn this role, you'll\nArchitect, build, and maintain highly-available data pipelines for robot video, telemetry, and demonstration data\n\nOwn the path from robot to training set: edge ingestion, MoQ/WebTransport streaming, storage, indexing, and retrieval\n\nWork with ML and robotics engineers to make fleet data immediately usable for training and evaluation\n\nImprove throughput, reliability, and cost across the full data path\n\nBuild tooling that lets the team find, inspect, and trust the data\n\nHelp set technical direction for data and infrastructure as the fleet scales\n\nWe're looking for someone who\nHas 5+ years of software development experience\n\nHas hands-on experience architecting and optimizing large-scale data pipelines\n\nIs proficient in Rust, Go, or Python - Rust is a big plus\n\nHas a strong sense of ownership and can drive complex systems end to end\n\nCommunicates clearly and works well with ML, robotics, and hardware engineers\n\nBonus: experience with streaming video, telemetry-heavy systems, or robotics/edge data\n\nAbout Droyd\nDroyd builds autonomous robotic systems to automate manual work for enterprises. We design the hardware, write the control stack, collect our own data, and train models that run under real-world constraints.\nIf we do this right, robots stop being demos and start being tools people rely on every day.\nJoin us and help build systems that actually ship.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2417,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-13T06:56:40Z"}],"liveness":{"score":7,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.236,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":109,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:7","stale_co","ghost","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":250000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/droydrobotics-data-infrastructure-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/droydrobotics-data-infrastructure-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T02:00:30Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1645,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3355,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}