Software Engineer - Robotics & Autonomous Systems Engineering San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer - Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Scale's Robotics business unit is dedicated to solving the data bottleneck in Physical AI across Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, and Computer Vision. In this role, you'll be a key contributor building production systems for robotics data collection, model training pipelines, and evaluation infrastructure. You'll have the opportunity to own critical parts of our robotics platform, work directly with cutting-edge robotics and AV customers, and shape the future of embodied AI systems.

You Will :

• Own and architect large-scale data processing pipelines for robotics and autonomous vehicle datasets
• Build ML training and fine-tuning pipelines using Scale's robotics data
• Work across backend (Python, Node.js , C++) and frontend (React, TypeScript) stacks to build end-to-end solutions
• Develop tools and systems for robotics data collection, teleoperation, and model evaluation
• Interact directly with robotics and AV stakeholders to understand their technical needs and drive product development
• Build real-time systems for robotic control, sensor fusion, and perception pipelines
• Design comprehensive monitoring and evaluation frameworks for robotics models and data quality
• Collaborate with ML engineers and researchers to bring robotics research into production
• Deliver features at high velocity while maintaining system reliability and performance

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Nice to Haves :

The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of San Francisco is :

$248,400 — $310,500 USD

PLEASE NOTE : Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Us :

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver direct impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.

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