Senior ML Engineer, Data Flywheel
FieldAI· Engineering – Perception
Irvine, CAFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior ML Engineer focused on the Data Flywheel to automate the lifecycle of data collection, labeling, and model training for autonomous robots operating in complex real-world environments.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain pipelines that transform robot data into training-ready ML datasets.
- Automate data processing, filtering, selection, transformation, labeling, and dataset-generation workflows.
- Develop scalable batch and offline inference pipelines for auto-labeling and data mining.
- Build systems for selecting useful or difficult examples from large volumes of robot data.
- Integrate manual labeling and model-assisted/automated labeling into repeatable data workflows.
- Implement data-quality checks and dataset validation.
- Build reproducible and versioned dataset-generation pipelines.
- Improve incremental dataset generation so new robot experience can efficiently feed future training cycles.
- Partner with researchers to translate experimental data-processing logic into reliable production pipelines.
- Measure and improve the efficiency of the loop from new robot experience to usable training data.
Qualifications
- Strong Python and software engineering skills.
- Experience building ML/data-processing pipelines.
- Understanding of ML dataset construction and training workflows.
- Experience processing large datasets using distributed or parallel computing.
- Experience with object storage, Parquet or similar formats, workflow systems, and cloud compute.
- Ability to bridge exploratory ML code and reliable production systems.
- Strong understanding of data quality and reproducibility.
Skills
Required:PythonML/data-processing pipelinesDistributed/parallel computingData quality and reproducibility
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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