Data Infrastructure Engineer
Pivot Robotics
- Location
- Onsite (San Francisco, California)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid Level
About the Role
Pivot Robotics is a YC-backed startup building AI-enabled robotic automation for high-mix manufacturing. This role focuses on designing and maintaining production data infrastructure, ML pipelines, and edge-to-cloud systems to support visual QA and surface finishing operations.
Skills
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Responsibilities
Design and own the schemas and data models behind our production systems
Build and maintain data infrastructure on AWS
Build the artifact store for scans, meshes, model checkpoints, and calibration files
Build edge-to-cloud pipelines between robotic cells and our infrastructure
Build ML infrastructure: training pipelines, dataset versioning, and model deployment
Requirements
2+ years building data infrastructure on AWS (application-side, not platform operations)
Strong schema design and data modeling, including distributed systems tradeoffs
ML infrastructure experience
Ability to work across the stack, from analyzing data to designing the systems around it
Willingness to travel to customer sites
Preferred
Data infrastructure in a robotics, autonomy, or industrial IoT setting
Edge computing experience
Interest in manufacturing