Helix AI Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Figure AI Figure AI · Robotics · HQ · AI - Helix Team

Figure AI is seeking an experienced Data Infrastructure Engineer to build and manage the AI data infrastructure for their humanoid robot company. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining tools for robot data offloading, storage, manipulation, and access, managing on-premise and cloud resources, and supporting data pipelines from recording to neural network training. The ideal candidate has experience with large-scale autonomous/deep learning systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, and maintain tools and software components that offload, store, manipulate and provide access to robot data
  2. Architect and manage storage and compute resources across on-premise and cloud environments at a massive scale.
  3. Implement optimal data transmission and storage solutions for all stages of Figure’s data pipeline from recording to neural network training
  4. Work together with AI researchers to support new kinds of data workflows

Skills

Required

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field
  • Minimum of 4 years of professional, full-time experience building reliable backend systems
  • Experience with Linux and command line tools
  • Experience with Python
  • Experience using and managing data stores (Postgres, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, etc.)

Nice to have

  • Experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Experience with job scheduling / orchestration tools (SLURM, Kubernetes, LSF, etc.)
  • Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
  • Experience building data annotation and dataset management tools.

What the JD emphasized

  • building tools and software components that offload, store, manipulate and provide access to robot data
  • managing on premise and cloud resources
  • building tools and infrastructure for a large-scale autonomous / deep learning system
  • data pipeline from recording to neural network training

Other signals

  • AI Robotics company
  • humanoid robot
  • AI data infrastructure
  • large-scale autonomous / deep learning system
  • data pipeline from recording to neural network training