Senior Software Engineer I/II, Back-end/Data, Robotics
Hybrid (Cambridge, MA)$144k - $240kfull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Senior backend/data engineer to build scheduling, digital twin data layers, and data infrastructure for autonomous labs, enabling scalable back-end services, data pipelines, and capacity planning.
Responsibilities
- Design scheduling systems: allocate experiments, instruments, and compute across autonomous labs, modeling long-running jobs as durable Temporal workflows.
- Model digital twins: stand up the simulation/digital-twin data layer so teams predict factory behavior before committing resources.
- Own technical data management: build the Flyte pipelines, S3 lakehouse, and PostgreSQL models that turn instrument output into governed, trustworthy data.
- Enable data science: ship batch and event-driven pipelines that put clean data in the hands of scientists and models.
- Deliver capacity planning: create customer-facing services that help teams forecast factory capacity.
- Operate for scale: run services on AWS EKS with Docker/ECR, Terraform, and GitHub Actions, reliable as the factory grows.
Qualifications
- 4–8 years of back-end engineering: production services in Python (FastAPI) at scale.
- Data engineering: pipelines on a workflow orchestrator such as Flyte, Temporal, or similar.
- Data modeling across stores: hands-on SQL (PostgreSQL), object storage (S3), and data lakehouse architectures.
- Cloud-native delivery: a major cloud with containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD — ideally AWS EKS (Docker/ECR), Terraform, and GitHub Actions.
- End-to-end ownership: taking services from design through delivery, reliability, and iteration.
- Clear collaboration: communicating technical tradeoffs plainly with engineers, scientists, and business partners.
Skills
Required:Python (FastAPI)Workflow orchestrationSQL (PostgreSQL)Object storage (S3)Cloud-native / IaC / CI/CD
Benefits
- We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity.
- U.S. Benefits: medical, dental, vision; life and disability insurance; flexible time off with holidays; parental leave; educational assistance; commuter benefits; lunch program.
- International Benefits: region-specific benefits; USD salary ranges apply to U.S.-based positions; international salaries set to local market.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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