# Database Engineer

About Mecka AI Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI. We design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems. We work closely with frontier robotics teams to bridge real-world data, simulation, learning-based systems, and deployed hardware. About the role Our database layer sits under everything Mecka ships, and it's growing quickly. We're looking for someone to own it: learn what we've built, set the plan for where it goes next, and help us scale. As part of our Platform Engineering & Infrastructure team, you'll work hands-on with MongoDB and ClickHouse at scale and take on challenges no one has solved for us yet. We need someone who brings both speed and quality, and who wants real ownership. What you'll do Own the database layer: Take full ownership of Mecka's MongoDB and ClickHouse, and make the decisions that keep them healthy. Learn it, then own it: Get a real grasp of the current setup in your first months, including a short overlap with a MongoDB engineer on contract, and take it from t

- **Id**: 4289336
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mecka-database-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States, Toronto, Canada
- **Countries**: US, CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T16:56:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T22:47:06Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2755
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, AI Training Data & Annotation

## Company

- **Id**: 678757
- **Name**: Mecka
- **Domain**: mecka.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mecka>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.286
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 36
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **ClickHouse** — Optional: no
- **Embodied AI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T22:47:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T00:24:09Z

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