Software Engineer, Infrastructure
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Infrastructure Engineer building data collection systems, operational platforms, and exabyte-scale data warehouses for robotics foundation models; designs and runs large-scale distributed data pipelines and internal developer platforms.
About this role
At xdof, we're at an inflection point. Frontier labs are racing to build general-purpose robots, and high-quality training data is the bottleneck. We're building the foundation behind the foundation models – the data collection systems, operational capability, exabyte-scale data warehouse, and software toolchain – to help our partners drive the field forward.
Infrastructure engineers build the platform that support our ever-increasing scale of data collection.
Sample projects include:
building an orchestration system to run computations upon data ingestion
designing an internal dev platform for researchers to test their ideas over the dataset
managing a multi-tenant data lake
Baseline skills:
a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
fluency with Python
You might be a good fit if you:
have had previous experience with large-scale data processing and distributed systems
have prior experience with AI or robotics
are very comfortable working in 0->1 environments
are mission-driven and passionate about robotics: work at xdof is fast-paced and constant. We hope you love what you're going to be doing, because you'll be doing a lot of it!
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