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Software Engineer, Data Engineering

FieldAI· Engineering – Infra & Platform Engineering
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Irvine, CA$115k - $170kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

FieldAI’s Irvine team seeks a Data Engineer to build reliable data pipelines and infrastructure for robotics data at scale, moving telemetry, logs, sensor data, and operational signals from deployed robots into platforms used by autonomy, analytics, ML, and deployment teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain production data pipelines for robot telemetry, logs, sensor data, and operational events.
  • Build reliable ingestion, transformation, and orchestration workflows using tools such as Airflow.
  • Develop backend services, APIs, and internal tools that make data accessible to engineering, ML, analytics, and operations teams.
  • Work with cloud infrastructure on AWS, including object storage, compute, databases, queues, and data processing services.
  • Improve pipeline reliability through monitoring, retries, backfills, schema validation, and data quality checks.
  • Collaborate with robotics, autonomy, infrastructure, and deployment teams to support real-world robot operations.
  • Help scale data systems for growing fleets and increasingly large datasets.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 3+ years of experience in data engineering, backend engineering, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • Strong software engineering skills, preferably in Python.
  • Experience building and operating data pipelines in production.
  • Familiarity with Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools.
  • Experience with AWS services such as S3, Lambda, ECS, EC2, RDS, Redshift, Glue, Athena, SQS, or related systems.
  • Good understanding of testing, monitoring, debugging, and incident response for production systems.
  • Ability to work across teams and translate messy real-world data problems into reliable systems.

Skills

Required:PythonData pipelinesAirflowAWS
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About FieldAI

Robot intelligence built for the real-world.

FieldAI is the leader in deploying general-purpose robots in unstructured environments, providing a universal brain that works across many robots, and many tasks.

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