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Location:
United States, San Jose

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

140000.00 - 350000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general-purpose humanoid. Our humanoid is designed for corporate tasks targeting labor shortages and jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. We are based in San Jose, CA, and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. It’s time to build. We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to develop and optimize our data processing infrastructure and tools, enabling deep insights from robotic system logs.In this role you will transform robot logs and other sources of data to extract information, identify patterns, provide access to the data and visualization tools. Your work will help ensure that the robot is operating reliably at maximum performance, and inform engineering design trades and decisions.

Job Responsibility:

Develop and maintain pipelines and tools to transform robot logs to make it easier to access, visualize, and automatically detect events of interest
Optimize data processing to reduce the time needed between data offload and the availability of the data to our engineering teams
Design and optimize data storage solutions for handling complex, high-volume time-series and structured data
Build and maintain database schemas and queries to support analytics and visualization of extracted patterns
Support mechanical, electrical, software, integration and test engineers with their needs to extract and visualize data
Develop dashboards and custom data visualizations tools to enable engineers to quickly extract information from the data and track robot performance
Integrate your solutions with existing data pipelines and our robot testing framework

Requirements:

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field
3+ years of experience in data engineering, preferably with time-series or log data processing
Proficiency in Python with experience in Pandas, Polars, or PySpark for large-scale data processing
Strong understanding of database design, indexing, and query optimization (SQL and NoSQL)
Experience handling complex data formats such as Parquet, MCAP, or protobuf
Experience building custom web based data visualization tools (JavaScript, React…)
Familiarity with data visualization tools like Grafana for real-time analysis and monitoring
Experience with distributed computing frameworks and cloud-based data storage solutions
Strong debugging skills and ability to work with lab teams to interpret robotic system logs

Nice to have:

Experience with CI/CD pipelines for automated data processing
Knowledge of robotics or embedded system logging frameworks
Familiarity with real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 08, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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