Software Engineer, Robotics

Software Engineer on RoboticsFrontier 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.As a Software Engineer on Robotics, you'll sit between Mercor's data systems and our customers' infrastructure. You'll work alongside operations and product teams to turn a set of requirements into a working delivery pipeline: the schema, fields, format, transport, and quality checks that prove what shipped is what was specified.This is a delivery-focused applied engineering role, not a classic robotics role. You will learn to grow and deeply understand robotics data types and work as part of a critical team leading the frontier development of physical AI, collaborating with engineers and researchers at frontier labs to ensure the data gets delivered properly.What You'll DoPartner with SPLs and client engineering teams to translate and implement data requirements into concrete delivery pipelinesBuild and operate the pipelines that move data from Mercor's systems into customer storage reliably at petabyte scaleFormat and transform datasets to per-client specification: MCAP and other container formats, custom schemas, field mappings, metadata, and versioningBuild automated validation to support delivery pipelinesPrototype quickly against new customer requirements, and debug issues when neededTurn one-off client requests into reusable components, and own delivery infrastructure end to endWhat We're Looking ForStrong backend and data engineering fundamentals in a modern language (Python, Go, Rust) and comfort operating production systems on AWS and GCPExperience building and owning high-volume data pipelines, not just contributing to themExperience with large binary formats, streaming ingestion, distributed batch processing, and object storage economicsCustomer-facing instincts: you can lead a technical conversation, ask the right questions, and push back when a request is unreasonableComfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively with a product team, where requirements evolve with the customers and data typesNice to HaveExperience with robotics/AV data formats and tooling such as MCAP, ROS, protobuf, FoxglovePrior work on data engines, pipelines, or delivery for multimodal dataMulti-sensor data experience across video, depth, inertial, and audio, including calibration and synchronizationForward-deployed, solutions, or delivery engineering experience at a data or infrastructure companyComputer vision or multimodal ML exposure: detection, tracking, or VLM-based labeling and QCBenefitsBi-annual performance bonus structureGenerous equity grant vested over 4 yearsUp to $15k Relocation bonus$10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)$1.5K monthly stipend for mealsFree Equinox membership$200 monthly laundry reimbursement$200 monthly personal wellness reimbursementHealth, Dental, Vision insurance