Platform Engineer – Robot Data Infrastructure (human)
LocationMetzingen / Riederich
Work modeon-site
Typefull-time
SenioritySenior
DepartmentAI
Company size1,001–5,000 people
PostedApr 11, 2026 · 6mo ago
Verified live15h ago
At a glanceSummarised by Seekless from the posting.
Must have6
Strong Python and TypeScript skills in production backend systems
Hands-on cloud experience, AWS preferred
Experience with ROS 2/DDS or similar robotics middleware
Familiarity with video/audio codecs and compression (FFmpeg, PyAV, H.264/AV1)
Ansible, Docker, and Terraform for fleet management
You care about CI/CD, automation, and keeping things shippable
Nice to have1
Interest in or exposure to ML data pipelines and robot learning
Skills
Python
TypeScript
AWS
ROS 2
DDS
FFmpeg
PyAV
Ansible
Docker
Terraform
Your mission & challenges
About the role
You design, build, and operate the end-to-end data infrastructure that turns raw multi-modal robot sensor recordings into ML-ready datasets. Working at the intersection of robotics, edge computing, and cloud data engineering, you own the full pipeline, from physical data collection environments to training-ready formats for robot learning.
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Data format & pipeline design: Define and evolve internal data formats for multi-modal sensor streams (video, depth, audio, point clouds, joint states, tactile) with efficient compression.
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Edge-to-cloud ingestion & transformation: Build services that orchestrate on-premise recording, validate data quality, transfer large volumes to the cloud, and convert raw data into structured formats for ML consumption.
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Infrastructure automation: Provision and manage on-premise compute via infrastructure-as-code, and handle containerized deployments and rolling updates across distributed sites.
Multi-agent annotation: Orchestrate vision-language agents that auto-annotate multi-modal episodes at scale, with human-in-the-loop review to keep labels training-ready.
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Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with hardware, robotics, and AI/data science teams to onboard new sensor modalities and track data throughput KPIs.
What you bring:
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Backend engineering: Strong Python and TypeScript skills in production backend systems.
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Cloud: Hands-on cloud experience, AWS preferred.
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Robotics middleware: Experience with ROS 2/DDS or similar robotics middleware.
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Media codecs: Familiarity with video/audio codecs and compression (FFmpeg, PyAV, H.264/AV1).
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Infrastructure-as-code: Ansible, Docker, and Terraform for fleet management.
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DevOps mindset: You care about CI/CD, automation, and keeping things shippable.
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ML data pipelines: Interest in or exposure to ML data pipelines and robot learning.