Data Engineer · Mid · Amazon

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Robotics Data Engineer, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR)

San Francisco, California, USAMid2+ yrsData Engineerposted 9 d ago

Are you interested in solving the most critical operations problem behind cutting-edge robotics development? Interested in fast dynamic environment? Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) team is building advanced robotic systems through frontier foundation models, and high-quality data collection is a core input to that research.

Skills, with evidence

  • Data quality
    Working understanding of how collection quality, task coverage, and consistency affect model training and evaluation, with the ability to translate research requirements into executable procedures and quality checks.must have
  • Machine learning
    Experience supporting ML/AI data collection, annotation, quality assurance, or model evaluation workflows.must have · not practised here
  • AWS
    Experience diagnosing hardware, software, or process issues, using evidence to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.not practised here
  • Failure handling
    - Partner with researchers to develop and refine SOPs, translating task objectives, failure modes, and evaluation feedback into clear collection instructions and acceptance criteria.

Your plan

  1. The SQL screen: correct, then fast

    Data quality

    ≈ 1 h
  2. Pipeline design: safe to run twice

    Failure handling

    ≈ 3 h
  3. ≈ 1 h
10 drills · Foundations + Intermediate≈ 4 hours

Not covered by the plan: Machine learning, AWS.

Readiness

Counted from drills you have completed anywhere on D8LooP.

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