Staff Data Engineer, Figure
$150-250k
Office located in San Jose, CA
AI robotics company
Open for applications
AI robotics company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150-250k
Office located in San Jose, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To expand human capabilities through advanced AI.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re a hardcore data engineer who thrives on solving complex, cross-disciplinary problems — join us and help define the data backbone for Humanoid robots
- Experience owning or architecting large-scale data platforms — ideally in EV, autonomous driving, or robotics fleet environments, where telemetry, sensor data, and system metrics are core to product decisions
- Deep expertise in data engineering and architecture (data modeling, ETL orchestration, schema design, transformation frameworks)
- Strong foundation in Python, SQL, and modern data stacks (dbt, Airflow, Kafka, Spark, BigQuery, ClickHouse, or Snowflake)
- Experience building data quality, validation, and observability systems to detect regressions, schema drift, and missing data
- Excellent communication skills — able to understand technical needs from domain experts (controls, perception, operations) and translate complex data patterns into clear, actionable insights for engineers and leadership
- First-principles understanding of electrical and mechanical systems, including motors, actuators, encoders, and control loops
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Data Engineer to own the design, scalability, and reliability of our data platform powering fleet analytics, regression detection, and release validation across Figure’s humanoid robot fleet
- This role blends elements of Data Engineering, Data Architecture, and Data Science. This role is ideal for someone who has built large-scale telemetry or platform data systems for domains like EVs, autonomous driving, or robotics fleets
- You’ll serve as the technical anchor for the robot data platform, ensuring robot platform data is accurate, accessible, and actionable across the entire engineering organization. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role with direct influence over the software and hardware decisions shaping the next generation of humanoid robots
- Architect and evolve Figure’s end-to-end platform data pipeline — from robot telemetry ingestion to warehouse transformation and visualization
- Improve and maintain existing ETL/ELT pipelines for scalability, reliability, and observability
- Detect and mitigate data regressions, schema drift, and missing data via validation and anomaly-detection frameworks
- Identify and close gaps in data coverage, ensuring high-fidelity metrics coverage across releases and subsystems
- Define the tech stack and architecture for the next generation of our data warehouse, transformation framework, and monitoring layer
- Collaborate with robotics domain experts (controls, perception, Guardian, fall-prevention) to turn raw telemetry into structured metrics that drive engineering/business decisions
- Partner with fleet management, operators, and leadership to design and communicate fleet-level KPIs, trends, and regressions in clear, actionable ways
- Enable self-service access to clean, documented datasets for engineers
- Develop tools and interfaces that make fleet data accessible and explorable for engineers without deep data backgrounds
Our take
Humanoid robots are quickly moving from sci-fi to reality, with big tech companies racing to bring them into workplaces, and soon, our homes. It's a booming market, and Figure is one of the big names in the game.
Figure builds human-like robots that are powered by advanced AI that can walk, see, and even understand natural language. Its latest model, the Figure 02, is already piloting in a BMW factory, and its in-house AI system, Helix lets these robots perform complex tasks from simple voice prompts. The company's moving fast, and it's not slowing down anytime soon.
But moving fast comes with baggage. It recently cut ties with OpenAI after claiming a major breakthrough in robot intelligence, and it's now working completely solo. Still, Figure just secured major commercial deals and may be headed for a jaw-dropping $40B valuation. It's a high-stakes field that's as exciting as it is controversial and Figure is certainly one to watch out for.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2025
$1bn
SERIES C
Feb 2024
$675m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.9bn
Company HQ
Sunnyvale, CA
Leadership
Brett Adcock
(Founder)Currently Founder at Archer. Previously Founder at Vettery and various other statups.
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