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Software Engineer

Aditi ConsultingMenlo Park, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 16, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Software Engineer role offers a fantastic opportunity to build impactful data and operations platforms for a cutting-edge robotics program, with the flexibility to work remotely part of the week. You'll thrive here if you enjoy owning production systems, collaborating directly with researchers, and leveraging your Python and Go skills to drive innovation in a fast-paced environment with competitive hourly compensation. Apply now to contribute to exciting advancements in robotics and data management!

Quick Overview

Salary
$60 - $70/hr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Menlo Park, CA, United States
Posted
4 days ago
SQLAWSRoboticsLLMPostgreSQLPython

Job Description

Payrate: $60.00 - $70.00/hr.
Summary:
Join the small team building Conductor, the data and operations platform for our robotics program. Conductor manages high-volume, multimodal robot data from ingestion through quality control, discovery, training, and evaluation. You will own meaningful production systems, work directly with researchers and robotics engineers, and ship quickly with a high degree of autonomy.
Responsibilities
  • Build reliable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines using Python and Go across PostgreSQL and AWS/S3.
  • Design systems for ingesting, indexing, transforming, validating, and serving large robotics datasets.
  • Develop agentic and LLM-powered workflows for data quality, enrichment, automation, and research productivity with evaluations and guardrails.
  • Improve performance, observability, correctness, and operational reliability across the platform.
  • Work end-to-end: clarify requirements, make pragmatic design choices, implement, test, deploy, and iterate with users.
 
Qualifications
  • Exceptional Software Engineering Fundamentals: Data structures, algorithms, systems, databases, and debugging.
  • Backend / Data Systems Experience: Proven track record building substantial backend, data-intensive, or distributed systems (via internships, research, open source, or ambitious projects).
  • Languages & Databases: Strong programming skills in at least one statically typed language (Go) alongside Python and SQL.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field (preferably from top systems programs like MIT, Stanford, CMU, Berkeley, UIUC, Waterloo, Georgia Tech, UT Austin, Princeton, Cornell). Demonstrated ability matters more than pedigree.
 
Skills
  • Open Source & Research: Substantial contributions to respected open-source projects or systems/data research.
  • AI / Workflows: Experience building useful agentic workflows with real evaluations.
  • Ability to write clear, maintainable production code and reason carefully about reliability, performance, and data correctness.
  • High ownership, intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, and comfort moving quickly in an ambiguous environment.
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, AWS/S3, ML platforms, or developer tools.
 
Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $60.00 - $70.00 /hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law. 
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