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Helix AI Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Figure· AI - Helix Team
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San Jose, CA$150k - $400kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The Helix team seeks an experienced Data Infrastructure Engineer to build tools and software for offloading, storing, manipulating, and providing access to robot data, manage on-premise and cloud resources, and provide production support for AI data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain tools and software components that offload, store, manipulate and provide access to robot data.
  • Architect and manage storage and compute resources across on-premise and cloud environments at a massive scale.
  • Implement optimal data transmission and storage solutions for all stages of Figure’s data pipeline from recording to neural network training.
  • Work together with AI researchers to support new kinds of data workflows.

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 4 years of professional, full-time experience building reliable backend systems.
  • Experience with Linux and command line tools.
  • Experience with Python.
  • Experience using and managing data stores (Postgres, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, etc.).

Skills

Required:Software engineering fundamentalsBackend developmentLinuxPythonData stores
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Figure

The future of home help is here

Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.

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