Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

<div class="content-intro"><p>Agility’s commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential.</p></div><h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;">About The Role</span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Join the cutting-edge team building the data platform that powers fleet-scale humanoid robotics. As a Staff Software Engineer on our Data Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining the infrastructure that enables efficient ingestion, processing, discovery, serving, and analysis of massive datasets generated by our robots. Your work will directly contribute to improving robot performance, operational insights, and scaling our cloud-based systems.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Key Responsibilities</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Data Ingestion: Design and implement scalable data pipelines for ingesting and processing telemetry, logs and sensor data from our fleet of robots and associated cloud software</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Data Agents: Develop and maintain data ingestion agents running directly on robot software to ingest high volume data in low connectivity environments. </span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Data Formats: Maintain and develop data formats and protocols optimized for transmission, storage and query of data recordings, sensor data and telemetry. </span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Observability systems: Develop and maintain observability systems using tools like fluentbit, OpenTelemetry etc enabling real-time monitoring and analytics of fleet operations.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Big Data Processing: Implement solutions to prepare high volume, high velocity data for analysis using technologies such as Spark, Kafka or equivalent</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Cloud Platform: Build and optimize tools for internal stakeholders for business intelligence and long-horizon fleet analytics and forecasting using existing tools like AWS S3, Athena, Sagemaker etc.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">IoT integration: Leverage IoT experience to improve data collection and processing pipelines from robot sensors and edge devices.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Required Qualifications</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">5+ years of strong experience in building and scaling cloud-based data platforms with familiarity in cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Proficient in big data frameworks like Spark, Kafka, Beam, Flink etc</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Familiarity with OSS data formats like Parquet, Arrow, Iceberg and protocols like Avro and Protobuf.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Experience with observability tools(e.g. OpenTelemetry, Prometheus etc) and implementing metrics, tracing and logging systems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"