Senior Data Engineer, ML Infrastructure

Senior Data Engineer

At Serve Robotics, we're reimagining how things move in cities. Our personable sidewalk robot is our vision for the future. It's designed to take deliveries away from congested streets, make deliveries available to more people, and benefit local businesses.

The Serve fleet has been delighting merchants, customers, and pedestrians along the way in Los Angeles while doing commercial deliveries. We're looking for talented individuals who will grow robotic deliveries from surprising novelty to efficient ubiquity.

Responsibilities

Architect and implement robust, scalable data pipelines to process, synchronize, and package robotics data (e.g., LiDAR, camera, IMU, proprietary maps) for third-party consumption.

Build a data processing and egress platform, ensuring the timely and accurate delivery of datasets according to strict partner SLAs.

Create data lifecycle policies to control cloud data costs. Build and maintain a universal data catalogue of all raw robot data. Create cost monitoring, attribution, and alerting systems.

Build data discoverability platform features, use ML models to generate new attributes and maintain efficient, highly scalable search indexes.

Setup data access audit trails and strong security controls managed through IaC. Create lineage maps and expose data traceability capabilities to internal consumers.

Qualifications

5+ years of professional experience in software or data engineering.

Strong programming proficiency in Python, SQL

Hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale data processing pipelines using cloud technologies

Proficiency with data warehousing and ETL / ELT concepts

Solid understanding of system design, along with data privacy and security best practices

What Makes You Stand Out

Hands on experience setting up IaC to orchestrate cloud resources and security policies

Experience with GCP and solid understanding of fully managed cloud infrastructure

Familiarity with robotics data such as lidar, multi-modal camera, mapping, etc

Experience working in a fast paced startup environment

Experience building and optimizing terabyte scale data pipelines