Field Development Engineer
Posted 6 months ago San Francisco, CA full-time
About This Role:
Embed directly with Avala's largest enterprise customers — autonomous vehicle programs and robotics companies — to integrate our platform into their data pipelines. You'll be a trusted technical partner who understands their perception stack and ensures Avala delivers production-grade training data at scale.
What You'll Do:
- Work on-site or closely with enterprise AV and robotics engineering teams
- Integrate Avala's annotation and data platform into customer perception pipelines
- Build custom data connectors, export formats, and workflow automations
- Troubleshoot production data quality issues across sensor modalities
- Translate customer requirements into platform feature requests and product feedback
- Represent Avala as a technical expert in customer engineering meetings
Requirements:
- 4+ years in software engineering with customer-facing technical roles
- Strong Python and systems programming experience
- Understanding of autonomous vehicle or robotics perception stacks
- Experience with sensor data — LiDAR, camera, radar, IMUExcellent communication skills — you can work with ML researchers and engineering managers alike
- Willingness to travel to customer sites (20-30%)Nice to Have:
- Experience at an AV company (Tesla, Waymo, Aurora, Motional, Zoox)
- Familiarity with annotation tools or ML training data pipelines
- Experience with ROS, MCAP, or custom sensor data formats
- Python Customer Success LiDAR Sensor Fusion Robotics
What We Offer:
Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the team building Fleet Learning Infrastructure for Physical AIFull health, dental, and vision coverage, plus FSA and unlimited PTOWork on the closed-loop data infrastructure that the next generation of autonomous systems learns from A team that built Tesla Autopilot's data infrastructure, now building something bigger