Project Hydra | Senior Software Engineer - Robot Data Collection

Welo Data

Santa ClaraFull-timeSenior
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About the role

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to own the systems that power a large-scale data collection operation, including the collection platform, operator tooling, data pipeline, and fleet infrastructure.

This is an engineering role. Day-to-day teleoperation is performed by a dedicated operator team that you direct — you build what they run on, and you own what comes out of it.

Project Details

Location: 100% Onsite (Santa Clara, CA, US)

Employment: Full-time W-2, Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM

Start Date: ASAP

Contract Duration: 12-month contract with possibility of extension

Rate: $105/hour

What You’ll Do

Design, build, and maintain the software behind our data collection stations — teleoperation stack, multi-camera recording, and session tooling.

Deploy and upgrade that stack across the fleet without stopping collection; keep workstations, containers, and networking healthy.

Own the data pipeline end to end: automated validation, conversion into our dataset format, upload, metadata, and versioning.

Build the QA tooling that catches dropped frames, stream desync, bad calibration, and mislabeled episodes before data reaches training.

Direct a team of teleoperators — define task protocols and SOPs, onboard them on new tasks and embodiments, review session quality, and unblock them daily.

Own fleet reliability: calibration and firmware pipelines, sensor and end-effector integration, root-cause analysis of recurring faults, and vendor escalation.

Bring up new stations and new embodiments; report throughput, yield, and data health to the research team.

What we need to see

MS in CS, Robotics, EE/ME, or a related field (or BS with equivalent hands-on experience).

3+ years building software for real robot systems — not simulation only.

A system you designed and shipped that other people depended on daily, and that you kept running.

Strong Python and Linux; Docker, git, CI, and SSH-based fleet administration. …

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