Software Engineer, Robotics

Job summary

Responsibilities

Frontier AI is going physical, and the labs building it are bottlenecked on one thing: high-quality data from the real world. Mercor pairs its operational scale with the specialized engineering that physical-world data demands.

• Own the reusable infrastructure behind robotics data deliveries: the processing, packaging, and delivery systems
• Format and transform datasets to per-client specification: MCAP and other container formats, custom schemas, field mappings, metadata, and versioning
• Work directly with customer engineering teams to scope and build bespoke schemas, custom fields, and one-off transforms where requirements are custom
• Build and operate the pipelines that move data from Mercor's systems into customer storage reliably at petabyte scale
• Partner with operations and product to turn evolving requirements into shipped data deliveries, and prototype quickly when a new data type or customer arrives

What they're looking for

• Strong backend and data engineering fundamentals in a modern language (Python, Go, Rust) and comfort operating production systems on AWS and GCP
• Experience building and owning high-volume data pipelines, not just contributing to them
• Experience with large binary formats, streaming ingestion, distributed batch processing, and object storage economics
• Customer-facing instincts: you can lead a technical conversation, ask the right questions, and push back when a request is unreasonable
• Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively with a product team, where requirements evolve with the customers and data types

Tech stack

• Python
• Go
• Rust
• AWS
• GCP