Robotics Data Infrastructure Engineer

Build and own our data backbone on AWS: Design and run cloud + edge pipelines using services like IoT Core, S3, ECR, Batch, ECS/EKS, and Step Functions. Your work keeps robot data flowing reliably and cost-efficiently from the field into the lab.

Develop on-device data systems: Build robust, fault-tolerant data capture on edge PCs using MCAP/Protobuf, with clean schema contracts, buffering, and resumable uploads to the cloud.

Wrangle massive multimodal datasets: Organize and version millions of images, videos, time-series (robot state, force/torque), and annotations. Enforce metadata, retention, and access patterns that scale.

Build MLOps and DataOps pipelines: Automate data validation, labeling, augmentation, and model training/evaluation using containerized jobs and orchestrators like Batch, Step Functions, Airflow, or Prefect.

Ensure data quality and health: Create ingestion checks, schema validation, deduping, drift detection, and real-time alerting around data freshness and completeness.

Build internal tools that unblock others: Develop UIs/CLIs for browsing data, launching jobs, tracking experiments, and debugging robots in the field. Integrate with tools like Foxglove.

Work across teams: Partner with hardware, ML, and product to turn raw field data into smarter robots and real customer value—fast.

At Verne, you won’t just be writing code — you’ll be shaping the future of physical AI. Our mission is simple but ambitious: free humans from tedious manual work by deploying low-cost robotic automation at scale and democratizing bimanual robot manipulators for the world.

You’ll build systems that run on real robots, in real customer environments, driving immediate and tangible impact. You’ll join a small, world-class team where your ideas matter, your ownership is real, and your growth is accelerated. If you’re excited by hard problems, fast execution, and the chance to industrialize AI in the physical world, this is the team to be on.

Location: South San Francisco, CA (on-site required)

Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity

Perks: Free meals vouchers, hardware access, health benefits, PTO