Droyd
Data Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 42 days ago
PythonGoRustMachine LearningData EngineeringRobotics
About the role
- You'll architect ingestion from edge devices, streaming transport, storage, and retrieval - and make fleet data immediately usable for training and evaluation.
- You'll work in person with a small, senior team across robotics, ML, and hardware.
- Your work will ship directly to deployed systems.
Responsibilities
- As a Staff Software Engineer on data infrastructure at Droyd, you'll own the pipelines that carry data from robot to model.
- This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We're an in-person company. We build faster that way.
- Architect, build, and maintain highly-available data pipelines for robot video, telemetry, and demonstration data
- We build faster that way.
- Own the path from robot to training set: edge ingestion, MoQ/WebTransport streaming, storage, indexing, and retrieval
- Build tooling that lets the team find, inspect, and trust the data
- Has a strong sense of ownership and can drive complex systems end to end
- Droyd builds autonomous robotic systems to automate manual work for enterprises.
- We design the hardware, write the control stack, collect our own data, and train models that run under real-world constraints.
- Join us and help build systems that actually ship.
Nice to have
- experience with streaming video, telemetry-heavy systems, or robotics/edge data
- If we do this right, robots stop being demos and start being tools people rely on every day.
- Work with ML and robotics engineers to make fleet data immediately usable for training and evaluation
- Improve throughput, reliability, and cost across the full data path
- Help set technical direction for data and infrastructure as the fleet scales
- Has 5+ years of software development experience
- Has hands-on experience architecting and optimizing large-scale data pipelines
- Is proficient in Rust, Go, or Python - Rust is a big plus
Benefits
- Bonus: experience with streaming video, telemetry-heavy systems, or robotics/edge data
Company info
- Droyd builds autonomous robotic systems that take on repetitive manual work in real environments.
- Our robots generate high-rate video, telemetry, and demonstration data every time they move - and that data is what trains our models.
- Our software team builds the systems that connect robots to learning.
- We're an in-person company.
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