Software Engineer, Data Engineering

FieldAI

$115K — $170K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • 3+ years in data engineering or backend engineering
  • Strong software engineering skills, particularly in Python
  • Experience with production data pipelines
  • Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools like Airflow
  • Proficient with AWS services such as S3, Lambda, and EC2
  • Understanding of production system testing and monitoring

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain production data pipelines for robotics data
  • Build ingestion, transformation, and orchestration workflows with Airflow
  • Develop APIs and internal tools for data accessibility
  • Utilize AWS cloud infrastructure for data processing
  • Enhance pipeline reliability and data quality checks
  • Collaborate with various teams to support real-world robot operations
  • Scale data systems for growing fleets and datasets

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and skill development
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Cutting-edge technology in the robotics field
  • Flexible work culture to encourage work-life balance
  • Potential for involvement in innovative projects in autonomy and AI
Full Job Description
About the Job

Field AI is looking for a Data Engineer to build reliable data pipelines and infrastructure for robotics data at scale. You will work on systems that move telemetry, logs, sensor data, and operational signals from deployed robots into the platforms used by autonomy, analytics, ML, and deployment teams. This role is ideal for someone with a strong software engineering background who enjoys building production systems, working with cloud infrastructure, and owning data pipelines end to end.

What You Will Get To Do

  • Design, build, and maintain production data pipelines for robot telemetry, logs, sensor data, and operational events.
  • Build reliable ingestion, transformation, and orchestration workflows using tools such as Airflow.
  • Develop backend services, APIs, and internal tools that make data accessible to engineering, ML, analytics, and operations teams.
  • Work with cloud infrastructure on AWS, including object storage, compute, databases, queues, and data processing services.
  • Improve pipeline reliability through monitoring, retries, backfills, schema validation, and data quality checks.
  • Collaborate with robotics, autonomy, infrastructure, and deployment teams to support real-world robot operations.
  • Help scale data systems for growing fleets and increasingly large datasets.


What You Have

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 3+ years of experience in data engineering, backend engineering, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • Strong software engineering skills, preferably in Python.
  • Experience building and operating data pipelines in production.
  • Familiarity with Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools.
  • Experience with AWS services such as S3, Lambda, ECS, EC2, RDS, Redshift, Glue, Athena, SQS, or related systems.
  • Good understanding of testing, monitoring, debugging, and incident response for production systems.
  • Ability to work across teams and translate messy real-world data problems into reliable systems.


What Will Set You Apart

  • Experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, including deploying, operating, or debugging workloads in production clusters.
  • Experience with robotics, autonomy, IoT, fleet telemetry, time-series data, or sensor-heavy systems.
  • Experience with data lake or warehouse systems such as Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Athena.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD and modern DevOps practices.


$115,000 - $170,000 a year

Our salary range is generous and we consider each individual's background and experience when determining final compensation. Base pay may vary based on role scope, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the Irvine, California market.

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