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 MondayFriday 9:00 AM5:00 PM
• Start Date:ASAP
• Contract Duration:12-month contract with possibility of extension
• Rate: $105/hour

What Youll 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 teleoperators define task protocols and SOPs onboard them on new tasks and embodiments review session quality and unblock them daily.
• Own fleet reliability: calibration and firmware pipelines sensor and end-effector integration root-cause analysis of recurring faults and vendor escalation.
• Bring up new stations and new embodiments; report throughput yield and data health to the research team.

What we need to see

• MS in CS Robotics EE/ME or a related field (or BS with equivalent hands-on experience).
• 3 years building software for real robot systems not simulation only.
• A system you designed and shipped that other people depended on daily and that you kept running.
• Strong Python and Linux; Docker git CI and SSH-based fleet administration.
• Robot middleware and real-time multi-sensor recording ROS 2 or equivalent vendor SDKs.
• Experience supporting a data collection or teleoperation operation: you have built the tools operators depend on and owned throughput and quality numbers.
• Comfortable around robot hardware arms or humanoids dexterous hands RGB-D cameras and the calibration that keeps them honest.
• Able to lead operators without formal authority: you write clear SOPs train people and communicate status without being asked.

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• Humanoid or bimanual platforms (Unitree Fourier ALOHA/ARX-class rigs) and dexterous hands.
• XR teleoperation: Quest / PICO / Vision Pro motion-capture gloves whole-body retargeting.
• Imitation-learning data tooling LeRobot HDF5/Zarr episode stores dataset versioning S3 at TBPB scale.
• Built internal dashboards or tooling for a production line or high-throughput lab.
• Open-source contributions to robotics data or teleoperation tooling.