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Data Platform Engineer, Data Pipelines
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- Pay not listedSimilar roles state $127K–$190K
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Employment type Full time
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What you’ll work on
Full postingDesign and build data platform, frameworks and developer tooling for ingestion
Handle intermittent connectivity, large sensor payloads and offline backfills
Build reusable ingestion SDKs, APIs and services for new robotics data sources
Connect robot, fleet, simulation and cloud storage sources to downstream consumers
Own integration reliability: schema contracts, retries, backfills and monitoring
From the employer’s posting
Design and build the data platform, frameworks, and developer tooling that power ingestion across Field AI.
Handle the realities of field data: intermittent connectivity, large sensor payloads (LiDAR, camera, IMU), edge-to-cloud synchronization, and backfill from offline deployments.
Develop reusable ingestion SDKs, APIs, and services that enable teams to onboard new robotics data sources with minimal custom code.
Build and maintain integrations across heterogeneous sources: robot/edge systems, fleet management and deployment tooling, simulation outputs, and cloud object storage.
Own integration reliability end to end: schema contracts, versioning, retries, backfills, and monitoring.
Education & alternatives
What You Have - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. - 3–5+ years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering focused on pipelines and infrastructure.
About Field-Ai
Every robot we deploy generates a continuous stream of telemetry, sensor logs, and operational data from environments around the world.
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Posting record
Report an errorOpen 4 monthsWe first saw this posting 123 days ago and it is still up. Roles open this long are often slow to fill or kept open to collect applications.
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- Jul 11, 2026123 days ago
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- Last seen by us
- Nov 12, 2026
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How this job compares
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Day 123
Up longer than most. Similar jobs usually come down between day 6 and day 55.
Well past Field-Ai’s usual: its jobs come down by about day 27.
From 13,175 similar postings that came down, and 5 of Field-Ai’s. Coming down is not always a hire.
Field-Ai is hiring
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- 3–5+ years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering focused on pipelines and infrastructure. - Strong programming skills in Python and SQL (C++, Scala, or Java a plus). - Production experience with streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster.
- Experience with a modern warehouse or lakehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift) and cloud object storage at scale. - Experience building integrations across systems: third-party APIs, internal services, and CDC/ELT tooling (Fivetran, Airbyte, Debezium, or custom connectors). - Experience building for data quality: testing, monitoring, lineage, and incident response.
- Production experience with streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster. - Experience with a modern warehouse or lakehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift) and cloud object storage at scale. - Experience building integrations across systems: third-party APIs, internal services, and CDC/ELT tooling (Fivetran, Airbyte, Debezium, or custom connectors).
- Experience with edge computing or intermittently connected data collection. - Experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks. Our salary range is generous and we consider each individual’s background and experience when determining final compensation. Base pay may vary based on role scope, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the Irvine, California market.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL (C++, Scala, or Java a plus). - Production experience with streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster. - Experience with a modern warehouse or lakehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift) and cloud object storage at scale.
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About the role
We file this job under Data Engineer, by the work the posting describes.
Data engineers build and run the pipelines that copy data out of apps and outside services into a warehouse or lake, and fix them when a source changes or a load fails.
Expect SQL, Python, a cloud platform, a scheduler such as Airflow, and often tools for large data such as Spark or Kafka.
An analytics engineer works one step later, turning the raw data a data engineer lands into clean tables people can query.
US government figures for database architects
- Median yearly pay, May 2025
- $139,500
- Expected change, 2025 to 2035
- 9.4% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs
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Job description
FieldAI’s Irvine team is where embodied AI meets real robots, real sensors, and real field deployments. Based in the heart of Southern California’s robotics ecosystem, we build risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI systems that solve the hardest problems in robotics and unlock the full potential of embodied intelligence. If you want your work to ship, get tested on hardware, and improve through real deployments, Irvine is the place. We go beyond typical data-driven approaches or pure transformer-only architectures, combining rigorous engineering with learning systems proven in globally deployed solutions that deliver results today and get better every time our robots run in the field.
About the Job
As a Data Platform Engineer, Data Pipelines, you will design and build the systems and integrations that help move data reliably from robots in the field to the teams and services that depend on it — analytics, autonomy, ML training, and deployment operations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams spanning robotics, autonomy, and deployment to build the data backbone of a field robotics company.
About the Data Platform Team
Every robot we deploy generates a continuous stream of telemetry, sensor logs, and operational data from environments around the world. The Data Platform team builds the systems that capture every autonomy intervention, anomaly, and operational signal from globally deployed robots, classify them, and turn them into the ranked problem list that drives our engineering roadmap.
What You'll Get To Do
- Design and build the data platform, frameworks, and developer tooling that power ingestion across Field AI.
- Handle the realities of field data: intermittent connectivity, large sensor payloads (LiDAR, camera, IMU), edge-to-cloud synchronization, and backfill from offline deployments.
- Develop reusable ingestion SDKs, APIs, and services that enable teams to onboard new robotics data sources with minimal custom code.
- Build and maintain integrations across heterogeneous sources: robot/edge systems, fleet management and deployment tooling, simulation outputs, and cloud object storage.
- Integrate the platform with downstream consumers: BI tools, ML training and evaluation pipelines, labeling systems, and issue tracking.
- Develop connectors and APIs (REST/gRPC, webhooks, CDC) so internal teams can feed data in and consume curated datasets reliably.
- Own integration reliability end to end: schema contracts, versioning, retries, backfills, and monitoring.
- Optimize pipeline performance, scalability, and cost across growing fleet deployments.
What You Have
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 3–5+ years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering focused on pipelines and infrastructure.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL (C++, Scala, or Java a plus).
- Production experience with streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub) and orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster.
- Experience with a modern warehouse or lakehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift) and cloud object storage at scale.
- Experience building integrations across systems: third-party APIs, internal services, and CDC/ELT tooling (Fivetran, Airbyte, Debezium, or custom connectors).
- Experience building for data quality: testing, monitoring, lineage, and incident response.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in interdisciplinary teams.
The Extras That Set You Apart
- Experience with robotics, autonomy, automotive, or other telemetry-heavy operational data (bag files, fleet logs, time-series sensor data).
- Familiarity with robotics middleware and log formats such as ROS/ROS2, MCAP, or rosbag.
- Experience with edge computing or intermittently connected data collection.
- Experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks.
Our salary range is generous and we consider each individual’s background and experience when determining final compensation. Base pay may vary based on role scope, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the Irvine, California market.
Why Join FieldAI in Irvine?
In Irvine, you will work where the robots are. Our local team builds and tests systems on real hardware with real sensors, then ships them to operate in unstructured, previously unknown environments around the world. We are solving one of robotics’ hardest challenges: reliable deployment outside the lab. Our Field Foundational Models™ raise the bar for perception, planning, localization, and manipulation, with an emphasis on explainability and safety for real-world use.
You will collaborate with a world-class team that thrives on creativity, resilience, and bold thinking. We bring deep experience from organizations such as DeepMind, NASA JPL, Boston Dynamics, NVIDIA, Amazon, Tesla Autopilot, Cruise, Zoox, Toyota Research Institute, and SpaceX, along with a track record of field deployments and strong performance in DARPA challenge segments.
Be Part of the Next Robotics Revolution
We are looking for builders who want their work to leave the whiteboard and show up on robots. If you enjoy tackling tough, uncharted questions and working across disciplines, you will find your people here. Our teams span AI, software, robotics engineering, product, field deployment, and technical communication, all focused on shipping systems that perform in the real world.
Our headquarters is in Irvine, and we partner closely with teams there as well as colleagues across the US and around the world. Join us in Southern California and help define what dependable, field-ready autonomy looks like.
We value diverse perspectives and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We evaluate candidates and employees based on merit, qualifications, and performance, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally protected status.
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