Helix AI Engineer Data Infrastructure

Figure is an AI robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid robots, embodied AI, and data-collection services for home and commercial use.

San Jose, United States
About Figure

Figure develops the Figure 03 humanoid robot and Helix, its vision-language-action AI system, to autonomously perform household and commercial tasks. It also operates Index, a contributor network and app for collecting real-world task data.

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Candidate Availability

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About the Role

You will build and maintain software for offloading, storing, manipulating, and accessing robot data. You will manage on-premise and cloud compute and storage, optimize data transmission and storage across the data pipeline, support AI data workflows, and provide production infrastructure support.

Requirements

  • Software engineering fundamentals
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field
  • At least 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 including Postgres, MySQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain tools and software for robot-data access and management
  • Architect and manage storage and compute across on-premise and cloud environments
  • Implement data transmission and storage solutions across the data pipeline
  • Support new AI data workflows with researchers
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