Figure AI

Helix AI Engineer, Data Infrastructure

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3 months ago
San Jose, CA, USAMid Level

Base Salary

$150k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain tools and software components for offloading, storing, manipulating, and accessing robot data.
  • Architect and manage storage and compute resources across on-premise and cloud environments at massive scale.
  • Implement data transmission and storage solutions across the pipeline from robot-data recording through neural-network training.
  • Collaborate with AI researchers to support new data workflows.
  • Provide production support for the data infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field.
  • At least 4 years of professional, full-time experience building reliable backend systems.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience with Linux and command line tools.
  • Experience with Python.
  • Experience using and managing data stores such as Postgres, MySQL, ElasticSearch, and Redis.
  • Bonus: experience managing AWS, Azure, or GCP infrastructure.
  • Bonus: experience with SLURM, Kubernetes, or LSF job scheduling and orchestration tools.
  • Bonus: experience with Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or Chef configuration management tools.
  • Bonus: experience building data annotation and dataset management tools.

Benefits

  • Full-time position based in San Jose with five days per week of in-office collaboration.
  • Total compensation may include additional components and benefits depending on the specific role.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Figure AI

501-1,000 employees

Figure AI builds general‑purpose autonomous humanoid robots and the AI software that powers them, targeting tasks in industrial, commercial, and eventually residential settings. The privately held company monetizes through robotics hardware and related software/services aimed at enterprises seeking automation. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Jose, California, it has announced a partnership with BMW Manufacturing to pilot humanoid robots in automotive production.

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