Software Engineer, II - Autonomy Data
Torc Robotics2 months ago
Base Salary
$139k - $167k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and organize the autonomy program’s data lake, including schemas, partitioning, and metadata indexing
- Build and maintain reliable pipelines that ingest high-bandwidth vehicle sensor logs into cloud storage despite intermittent connectivity
- Implement data validation, integrity checks, retention, tiering, and lifecycle policies
- Develop tooling and automation for curated datasets, pseudo-labeling, data quality metrics, and model performance metrics
- Deploy and maintain visualization tools, integrations, custom panels, and dashboards for log review, annotation QA, debugging, and data coverage analysis
- Establish data contracts and collaborate with perception, planning, embedded, and model-training engineers across the data lifecycle
- Help evolve data engineering standards and tooling, contribute to the data roadmap, and communicate findings to senior technical leadership
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 4+ years of data engineering experience, or a master’s degree with 2+ years of experience
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL with experience building production-quality data pipelines
- Experience with cloud data infrastructure, preferably AWS services including S3, Glue, Athena, or Redshift, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Understanding of data partitioning strategies and columnar storage formats including Parquet and ORC
- Experience building and operating pipelines that process time-series and binary data
- Ability to evaluate and integrate open-source tooling and deliver data quality through monitoring, validation, and lineage tracking
- U.S. citizenship is required because the role accesses information and systems restricted under U.S. law
- Bonus: experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, sensor-driven systems, Foxglove, Rerun, MCAP, or ML data curation
Benefits
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
- 401(k) plan with a 6% employer match
- Flexible schedule and generous paid vacation available immediately after start date
- Company-wide holiday office closures
- AD&D and life insurance
- Competitive compensation package with bonus component and stock options
About Torc Robotics
Torc Robotics develops autonomous driving software for heavy-duty trucks, offering a full self-driving stack, mapping, and perception for freight carriers and OEMs. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia, it was acquired by Daimler Truck in 2019. As a subsidiary, Torc focuses on commercializing Level 4 trucking with its parent’s vehicle platforms and industry partnerships in North American freight transport.