Torc Robotics
Software Engineer, II - Autonomy Data
Remote - US, Blacksburg, VA · Mid · Full-time
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About the role
- This is a high-ownership role on a lean team.
- Moving large scale sensor data reliably from vehicles operating in demanding environments and making it quickly available for model training is a difficult and high-impact problem to solve.
- U.S. Citizenship Requirement: This position requires access to information and systems that are restricted under U.S. law.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and organization of the program's data lake, including schema definitions, partitioning strategy and metadata indexing.
- Build and maintain end-to-end pipelines that ingest high-bandwidth sensor logs from vehicles into cloud storage with high reliability and tolerant of ad-hoc and intermittent connectivity mechanisms.
- Implement data validation and integrity checks that can detect corrupted information, missing sensors, and inconsistent calibration prior to the data being processed by downstream systems.
- Implement retention, tiering and lifecycle policies for data to balance storage costs with development value.
- Build tooling to query raw logs to produce curated training and evaluation datasets.
- Build automation to run cost-effective pseudo-labeling workflows at the scale of data ingest.
- Implement data quality and model performance metrics that are used to direct labeling effort toward the highest-value examples.
- Deploy and maintain data visualization tooling to support log review, annotation QA, and autonomy debugging workflows.
- Build integrations between the visualization tooling and the data lake so engineers can navigate from a dataset entry or model failure directly to the origin log data
- Work with autonomy engineers to define and surface custom visualization panels and implement metrics for analyzing unstructured operating environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field with 4+ years of data engineering experience or a Master's with 2+ years.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with demonstrated ability to build production-quality data pipelines
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, or other sensor-driven autonomous systems.
- Deep experience with Foxglove or Rerun beyond basic playback, e.g. building custom extensions or integrating them into a structured log review or annotation QA workflow.
- Experience with data curation for ML training, e.g. diversity sampling, pseudo-labeling, and dataset versioning.
Nice to have
- Experience with cloud data infrastructure (AWS preferred: S3, Glue Athena, redshift, or equivalent) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation).
Compensation
- A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
Benefits
- A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
- Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)
- Company-wide holiday office closures
- AD+D and Life Insurance
- Build dashboards that provide the autonomy engineers visibility into data coverage by terrain type, operating environment and geographic region.
Company info
- At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.
- A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners.
- Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.
- Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.
- Meet The Team:
- Torc is hiring an Autonomy Data Engineer Level 2 to help design, build and operate the data infrastructure that powers our autonomy program.
- You will build the pipelines, storage systems, and tooling that turn raw vehicle sensor logs into the curated, structured datasets that our perception, planning and simulation engineers depend on.
- Data Lake and Ingestion Pipeline
- Dataset Curation and Labeling Infrastructure
- Autonomy Data Visualization
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Follow and help evolve data engineering standards, best practices, and tooling choices for an innovative and fast-paced team.
- Contribute to the data roadmap and surface findings to senior technical leadership.
- What You'll Need to Succeed:
Visa & Work Authorization
- Citizenship Requirement:
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