[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform @Agility Robotics

Role Description

Join the cutting-edge team building the data platform that powers fleet-scale humanoid robotics. As a Staff Software Engineer on our Data Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining the infrastructure that enables efficient ingestion, processing, discovery, serving, and analysis of massive datasets generated by our robots. Your work will directly contribute to improving robot performance, operational insights, and scaling our cloud-based systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Ingestion: Design and implement scalable data pipelines for ingesting and processing telemetry, logs, and sensor data from our fleet of robots and associated cloud software.
• Data Agents: Develop and maintain data ingestion agents running directly on robot software to ingest high volume data in low connectivity environments.
• Data Formats: Maintain and develop data formats and protocols optimized for transmission, storage, and query of data recordings, sensor data, and telemetry.
• Observability systems: Develop and maintain observability systems using tools like fluentbit, OpenTelemetry, etc., enabling real-time monitoring and analytics of fleet operations.
• Big Data Processing: Implement solutions to prepare high volume, high velocity data for analysis using technologies such as Spark, Kafka, or equivalent.
• Cloud Platform: Build and optimize tools for internal stakeholders for business intelligence and long-horizon fleet analytics and forecasting using existing tools like AWS S3, Athena, Sagemaker, etc.
• IoT integration: Leverage IoT experience to improve data collection and processing pipelines from robot sensors and edge devices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of strong experience in building and scaling cloud-based data platforms with familiarity in cloud providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Proficient in big data frameworks like Spark, Kafka, Beam, Flink, etc.
• Familiarity with OSS data formats like Parquet, Arrow, Iceberg and protocols like Avro and Protobuf.
• Experience with observability tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, etc.) and implementing metrics, tracing, and logging systems.
• Proficiency in languages like Java, Scala (any JVM), or Python and a solid understanding of distributed systems and microservices architectures.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, or other sensor-heavy workloads will be strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of IoT systems, edge computing, or working with embedded devices is nice-to-have.
• Data catalog experience (Datahub, Amundsen, Databricks Unity Catalog).
• Experience with Databricks.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with Bazel/Blaze or other build systems.
• Experience with C++, Rust.
• Experience with robot data formats like mcap, ROS, etc., and data playback and visualization tooling like Rerun, etc.

Benefits

• 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
• Equity: Company stock options.
• Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
• Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
• Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Time Off:
  • Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
  • Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
• On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
• Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
• Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
• Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
• Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
• Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.

Company Description

Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.