~6mo ago
$150,000 to $400,000 per year

Helix AI Engineer, Data Infrastructure

United StatesUnited States·San Josemid
Data ScienceOtherDevOps & InfrastructureData EngineeringMachine Learning EngineerAI EngineerDataInfrastructureData & AI
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Overview

Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our humanoid robot is designed for commercial tasks and the home. We are based in San Jose and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. It’s time to build.

Requirements Summary

Strong software engineering fundamentals Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field Minimum of 4 years of professional, full-time experience building reliable backend systems Experience with Linux…

Technical Tools
ansibleawsazureelasticsearchgcpkubernetesmysqlpostgresqlpythonredisterraformdeep-learninglinux

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Figure’s vision is to deploy autonomous humanoids at a global scale. Our Helix team is looking for an experienced Data Infrastructure Engineer, to take our AI data infrastructure to the next level. This role is focused on building tools and software components that offload, store, manipulate and provide access to robot data, managing on premise and cloud resources, and providing production support for this infrastructure. The ideal candidate has experience building tools and infrastructure for a large-scale autonomous / deep learning system.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain tools and software components that offload, store, manipulate and provide access to robot data.

  • Architect and manage storage and compute resources across on-premise and cloud environments at a massive scale.

  • Implement optimal data transmission and storage solutions for all stages of Figure’s data pipeline from recording to neural network training.

  • Work together with AI researchers to support new kinds of data workflows.

Requirements

~1 min read
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals.

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field.

  • Minimum of 4 years of professional, full-time experience building reliable backend systems.

  • Experience with Linux and command line tools.

  • Experience with Python.

  • Experience using and managing data stores (Postgres, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, etc.).

  • Experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).

  • Experience with job scheduling / orchestration tools (SLURM, Kubernetes, LSF, etc.)

  • Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, etc.)

  • Experience building data annotation and dataset management tools.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $150,000 to $400,000 per year.

The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
San Jose, United States
On-site at the office
Who can apply
US
Listed under
United States

About this job

Pay per year
$150,000–$400,000 a year
31% above the $210,000 median for Machine Learning Engineer jobs on Jobera (912 salaries).
Who can apply
United States
Posted
202 days ago
Employer
has 99 open jobs on Jobera in 3 countries.

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April 1, 2026
Last seen
October 21, 2026

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Helix AI Engineer, Data Infrastructure $150,000 to $400,000 per year