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Data Platform Engineer, Autonomy Analytics

FieldAI · Irvine, CA · On-site

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About FieldAI

One Autonomy for All Robots. Field-proven embodied AI software that is finally unlocking the full potential of mobile robots in the real world. Backed by Khosla.

About the role

FieldAI is hiring a Data Platform Engineer, Autonomy Analytics in Irvine, CA. The full description is on FieldAI's site.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • 3–5+ years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering focused on pipelines and infrastructure
  • Strong programming skills in Python and SQL (C++, Scala, or Java a plus)
  • Production experience with streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster
  • Experience with a modern warehouse or lakehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift) and cloud object storage at scale
  • Experience building integrations across systems: third-party APIs, internal services, and CDC/ELT tooling (Fivetran, Airbyte, Debezium, or custom connectors)
More about this role
  • Design and build the data platform, frameworks, and developer tooling that power ingestion across Field AI.
  • Handle the realities of field data: intermittent connectivity, large sensor payloads (LiDAR, camera, IMU), edge-to-cloud synchronization, and backfill from offline deployments.
  • Develop reusable ingestion SDKs, APIs, and services that enable teams to onboard new robotics data sources with minimal custom code.
  • Build and maintain integrations across heterogeneous sources: robot/edge systems, fleet management and deployment tooling, simulation outputs, and cloud object storage.
  • Integrate the platform with downstream consumers: BI tools, ML training and evaluation pipelines, labeling systems, and issue tracking.
  • Develop connectors and APIs (REST/gRPC, webhooks, CDC) so internal teams can feed data in and consume curated datasets reliably.
  • Own integration reliability end to end: schema contracts, versioning, retries, backfills, and monitoring.
  • Optimize pipeline performance, scalability, and cost across growing fleet deployments.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 3–5+ years of experience in data...

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