Software Engineer, Data Engineering

FieldAI develops reliable, field-ready embodied AI systems for real-world robotics deployments. The company is seeking a Data Engineer to build and operate scalable data pipelines and infrastructure for robot telemetry, logs, sensor data, and operational signals, while supporting robotics, autonomy, analytics, ML, and deployment teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production data pipelines for robot telemetry, logs, sensor data, and operational events
• Build reliable ingestion, transformation, and orchestration workflows using tools such as Airflow
• Develop backend services, APIs, and internal tools that make data accessible to engineering, ML, analytics, and operations teams
• Work with cloud infrastructure on AWS, including object storage, compute, databases, queues, and data processing services
• Improve pipeline reliability through monitoring, retries, backfills, schema validation, and data quality checks
• Collaborate with robotics, autonomy, infrastructure, and deployment teams to support real-world robot operations
• Help scale data systems for growing fleets and increasingly large datasets

Preferred

• Experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure-as-code tools
• Experience with Kubernetes, including deploying, operating, or debugging workloads in production clusters
• Experience with robotics, autonomy, IoT, fleet telemetry, time-series data, or sensor-heavy systems
• Experience with data lake or warehouse systems such as Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Athena
• Familiarity with CI/CD and modern DevOps practices
• AWS CDK
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Kubernetes
• Robotics
• IoT
• Fleet Telemetry
• Time-Series Data
• Data Lake Systems
• Snowflake
• BigQuery
• Databricks
• CI/CD
• DevOps Practices

Company

• General-purpose robotics AI for unstructured physical environments
• Irvine, California, USA
• https://www.fieldai.com/
• Founded in 2023
• 201-500 employees

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, backend engineering, infrastructure, or platform engineering
• Strong software engineering skills, preferably in Python
• Experience building and operating data pipelines in production
• Familiarity with Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools
• Experience with AWS services such as S3, Lambda, ECS, EC2, RDS, Redshift, Glue, Athena, SQS, or related systems
• Good understanding of testing, monitoring, debugging, and incident response for production systems
• Ability to work across teams and translate messy real-world data problems into reliable systems
• Experience with AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure-as-code tools
• Experience with Kubernetes, including deploying, operating, or debugging workloads in production clusters
• Experience with robotics, autonomy, IoT, fleet telemetry, time-series data, or sensor-heavy systems
• Experience with data lake or warehouse systems such as Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Athena
• Familiarity with CI/CD and modern DevOps practices
• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, backend engineering, infrastructure, or platform engineering.

Required skills

• Python, Production Data Pipelines, Apache Airflow, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Testing and Monitoring Production Systems, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Robotics and Fleet Telemetry, Data Lake and Data Warehouse Systems, CI/CD

Preferred skills

• Familiarity with CI/CD and modern DevOps practices, Irvine, California, USA, https://www.fieldai.com, H1B Sponsorship, Data Powered by, Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship, Represents job field similar to this job, Engineering and Development, Trends of Total Sponsorships, *2026, (37), 2025, (9), Growth Stage, Total Funding, $405M, Key Investors, Hyundai Motor Group, Bezos Expeditions,Prysm Capital,Temasek, 2026-02-22, Corporate Round, 2025-08-20, Series Unknown· $91M, Series A· $314M, Leadership Team, Ali Agha, Founder and CEO, Recent News, Orange County Business Journal, 2026-10-07

Experience

• 3+ years