Software Engineer, Data Quality
San FranciscoFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Role focused on QA and audit of multimodal data used for training robot foundation models. Owns external data QA/audit, defines quality standards, builds scalable tooling, and manages vendor quality loops.
Responsibilities
- Own external data QA & audit: Build and run the end-to-end QA process for multimodal data ingested from third-party vendors and partners — sampling strategy, review workflows, pass/fail decisions, and audit trails — so data is verified before it reaches training.
- Define quality standards: Partner with researchers to translate what "good data" means into concrete, measurable rubrics and acceptance criteria; keep them versioned and current as research needs evolve.
- Build the system: Build the software interfaces, tooling, and infrastructure to scale the system in an automated way - correctly sampling the right data for QA, internal QA checks, tracking dips in data quality from vendors and exposing those insights back to the vendors.
- Manage vendor quality loops: Deliver structured, actionable feedback to vendors; coach them on standing up QA checks on their own side; iterate until vendor-side and internal QA agree; enforce standards through review and acceptance processes.
Qualifications
- ~5 years of experience across building customer facing software.
- Vendor management experience: working directly with third-party data providers, delivering actionable feedback, and measurably improving the quality of their output.
- Strong ops acumen and drive — a bias to instrument, measure, and iterate quickly rather than crank hours at a broken process.
- Comfort being hands-on in the data: reviewing samples yourself, writing and refining rubrics, and spot-checking your own program's output.
- Clear written and verbal communication across researchers, operations teams, and external partners.
Skills
Required:Quality assuranceRubric designVendor managementData samplingCommunication
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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