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You'll own the path from robot site to a searchable, trustworthy dataset that our researchers train on and our customers buy. You'll also run the infrastructure that keeps a growing, geographically spread fleet updated, monitored, and healthy.\nWhat you'll do\nOwn data storage and lifecycle: ingest from sites, object storage layout, retention, tiering, and cost.\n\nBuild the catalog: episode metadata, task labels, operator and robot info, quality flags, and search, so anyone can find \"all successful pick-and-place episodes on arm model X last month.\"\n\nBuild automated quality checks: dropped frames, sync drift, missing streams, failed or truncated episodes.\n\nBuild dataset export and delivery: convert raw episodes into the formats training teams and customers expect, with versioning and provenance.\n\nHandle data governance: access control, customer and site data agreements, privacy (faces, sensitive scenes on site), and audit trails for data we sell.\n\nRun fleet infrastructure: provisioning edge machines at sites, remote software deploys and rollbacks, secrets, VPN/connectivity, monitoring, and alerting.\n\nKeep cloud costs and bandwidth under control as data volume grows.\n\nBuild dashboards to monitor data collection status and progress\n\nWhat we're looking for\n3-4 years as a data, platform, or infrastructure engineer owning production systems end to end.\n\nExperience with large unstructured data (video, sensor logs, images) in object storage, not only tabular warehouses.\n\nStrong Python and SQL; comfortable with infrastructure-as-code, containers, and CI/CD.\n\nYou've built pipelines with real failure handling: retries, idempotency, backfills, and monitoring.\n\nNice to have\nExperience with robotics or autonomous-vehicle data, or ML training data pipelines.\n\nEdge fleet management: deploying to many remote Linux devices on unreliable networks.\n\nExperience packaging and delivering datasets to external customers.\n\nFamiliarity with data privacy rules across multiple countries.\n\nIf you don't check every box above but believe you can do the job, we encourage you to apply - we're looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match.\nWe strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. 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