Senior Software Engineer - Tools

Build the internal tools that turn robot field recordings into high-quality training data.

Responsibilities

• Own the viewer experience used to play back robot data and align telemetry with observed errors
• Own dataset curation, including the dataset API and tooling for finding, grouping episodes, and constructing training sets
• Build annotation tooling alongside the software team, including evaluating tradeoffs between building tools versus buying existing solutions
• Develop and maintain the quality review process for annotated data
• Collaborate with the ML team that trains on the data, fleet debugging engineers who use it for diagnosis, and annotators who label it

Requirements

• Have built an internal tool that became the standard way a team works
• Have built visualization or analysis tools for large volumes of sensor and video data
• Have built dataset tooling or a data pipeline that ML engineers train from
• Have designed a labeling or review workflow that enables annotation at volume

About the role

• Tools engineering focuses on converting what robots record in the field into data models can learn from
• Use cases include matching changes in robot telemetry to the moment an error occurred
• Own decisions about what belongs in training sets and what those tools reveal about the data patterns that guide next R&D steps
• Data quality is treated as model quality

Mission

• Expand human ambition in the physical world.

Location

• San Francisco, CA (onsite)

Company values

• Watney Robotics welcome people of all backgrounds and identities
• Hiring decisions are based on skills, experience, and potential
• Encourages applicants who are passionate about robotics even if they do not meet every requirement

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