Member of Technical Staff – Senior Engineer, Data & Training Infrastructure
$255,000–$340,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States or Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Design and scale the data-loading, sharding, and caching systems that feed large-scale training runs while ensuring throughput, utilization, and fault tolerance. Lead the workstream to remove bottlenecks between the data platform and training, implementing efficiency measures and observability tooling for performance monitoring. Set technical standards and mentor MTS engineers across data and training infrastructure. This role supports Walden Robotics' mission to build general-purpose robots that improve quality of life at home, work, and in factories.
Required Qualifications
- Strong background with experience supporting large-scale training
- Deep understanding of distributed-training performance and the data path that feeds it
- The ability to lead a workstream and make high-leverage infrastructure decisions
- A rigorous, measurement-driven approach to performance work
- Experience mentoring engineers and setting technical standards
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with large multimodal or video training pipelines
- Familiarity with accelerator utilization, high-performance I/O, or distributed storage
- Contributions to training-infrastructure or performance tooling
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