# Project Hydra | Senior Software Engineer - Robot Data Collection

Role Overview We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to own the systems that power a large-scale data collection operation, including the collection platform, operator tooling, data pipeline, and fleet infrastructure. This is an engineering role. Day-to-day teleoperation is performed by a dedicated operator team that you direct - you build what they run on, and you own what comes out of it. Project Details Location: 100% Onsite (Santa Clara, CA, US) Employment: Full-time W-2, Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Start Date: ASAP Contract Duration: 12-month contract with possibility of extension Rate: $105/hour What You’ll Do Design, build, and maintain the software behind our data collection stations - teleoperation stack, multi-camera recording, and session tooling. Deploy and upgrade that stack across the fleet without stopping collection; keep workstations, containers, and networking healthy. Own the data pipeline end to end: automated validation, conversion into our dataset format, upload, metadata, and versioning. Build the QA tooling that catches dropped frames, stream desync, bad calibration, and mislabeled episodes before data reaches training. Direct a team of teleopera

- **Id**: 948525
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/welo-global-project-hydra-senior-software-engineer-robot-data-collection>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-14T05:18:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T23:30:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 56
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2938
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Translation Services, AI Training Data & Annotation

## Company

- **Id**: 2970
- **Name**: Welo Global
- **Domain**: weloglobal.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/welo-global>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 285
- **Ghost share**: 0.305
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 67
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 105
- **Max**: 105
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 210000

## Technologies

- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **LeRobot** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **ROS** — Optional: no
- **Teleoperation** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 56

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T22:34:48Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-17T03:33:43Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-17T07:19:21Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-22T13:13:59Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-22T16:58:14Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-24T03:50:27Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-24T07:53:23Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 53
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.885
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 56
- **Expected fill days**: 67
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:late, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 210000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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