Senior Robotics Data Engineer - Only W2

Role: Senior Robotics Data Engineer Location: Warren, MI (Onsite from Day 1) Job Type: W2 Contract Main Skills: Senior Robotics Data Engineer (ML/AI systems, Python, TensorFlow and/or PyTorch, Power BI, Azure data services) Key Responsibilities • Design and implement scalable data pipelines for large-scale robotic datasets (vision, depth, tactile, force/torque). • Build infrastructure for high-throughput data capture from real robots and simulation environments. • Develop and deploy semi-supervised/self-supervised data labeling workflows to minimize manual annotation costs. • Enable simulation-to-real (Sim2Real) data workflows, including domain randomization and synthetic data generation. • Manage data versioning, metadata, and dataset governance to support model training, evaluation, and regression testing. • Collaborate with Robotics Perception, Grasping AI, and Simulation teams to define data requirements and KPIs. • Establish data quality metrics that correlate with perception and grasping performance. Required Qualifications • Minimum 3 years of experience in data engineering, machine learning systems, robotics, or related fields. • Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or equivalent practical experience. • Proven experience building production-grade data pipelines for ML/AI systems. • Strong hands-on experience with Python-based data tooling. • Experience working with large, complex, multimodal datasets. Preferred Qualifications • Direct experience supporting robotics perception, grasping, or manipulation AI. • Familiarity with robotics simulation platforms (e.g., Isaac Sim) and synthetic data generation. • Experience with data labeling tools and annotation workflows at scale. • Hands-on knowledge of TensorFlow and/or PyTorch from a data systems perspective. • Experience with Microsoft data ecosystems (Power BI, Azure data services).