Senior Software Engineer - Tools

Senior Software Engineer - Tools will develop the tooling that converts robot field recordings into training-ready data.

Responsibilities

• Own the viewer engineers use to play back robot data and align telemetry with recorded errors
• Own dataset curation, including the dataset API and tools to find, group, and assemble episodes into training sets
• Build annotation tooling in collaboration with the broader software team
• Evaluate build-versus-buy tradeoffs for tooling and workflows
• Build and maintain the quality review process for annotated data
• Partner with the ML team that trains on this data, fleet debugging engineers, and annotators who label it

Requirements

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

About the Role

• Tools will help transform what robots capture in the field into data models learn from
• Use the same tooling to connect changes in robot telemetry to the moment an error occurred
• Decide which moments are worth training on and which labels remain reliable under review
• Leverage records captured on site while robots work to improve label quality
• Own systems that drive data quality as model quality
• Determine what enters the training set and what the tools reveal about data patterns that guide future R&D

Mission

• Expand human ambition in the physical world

Location

• San Francisco, CA (onsite)

Equal Opportunity

• Watney Robotics welcomes people of all backgrounds and identities
• Hiring decisions are based on skills, experience, and potential
• Encouraged to apply even if not all requirements are met

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