Field Development Engineer
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, IMU
Excellent 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