Your Role:As a Software Engineer on the Data Systems team, you will build key capabilities for
Eventual. We build storage and a high-throughput data engine over petabytes of video, lidar and high-frequency telemetry data to power frontier robotics and Physical AI labs. You will work directly on the architecture powering real-time indexing of perception/robotics data, distributed storage/compute, and dataloading at line-rate to GPUs for model training and inference. We operate as a tight-knit, experienced engineering team that values technical autonomy, deep execution, and a passion for solving hard distributed systems problems.
Key Responsibilities:- Multimodal Storage (Data Lake): built against modern columnar data lake formats (Apache Parquet, Apache Iceberg etc) optimized for high-dimensional video, lidar and sensor logs.
- Query Engine: build powerful querying capabilities. Our multi-stage query systems are built on database fundamentals such as partitioning, indexing, query planning, embeddings/vector search for search and retrieval as well as LLMs/VLMs for perception-based query predicates.
- Dataloading: Improve memory stability, throughput, and zero-copy data flow through streaming computation and line-rate CUDA tensor delivery to GPUs.
What we look for:- Proven track record building resilient, high-throughput distributed systems or database engines using Rust or C++.
- 3+ years of experience diving deep into engine internals-such as vectorized execution, query planning/optimization, distributed task scheduling, or zero-copy networking.
- Practical exposure to scaling cloud infrastructure (AWS S3) and managing heavy-compute data pipelines (bonus points for experience with CUDA, GPU streaming, or video decoding frameworks).
- High agency and adaptability to thrive in an autonomous, fast-paced startup environment building cutting-edge infrastructure for frontier robotics
Perks & Benefits- In-person tight knit team with 4x a week in office
- Competitive comp and startup equity
- Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees
- Commuter benefit
- Team building events & poker nights
- Health, vision, and dental coverage
- Flexible PTO
- Latest Apple equipment
- 401k plan with match!
