Senior Data Operations Engineer

About the Role

Field AI is transforming how robots interact with the real world. Our R&D team, the FieldAI Research Institute (FAIRI), is based in Cambridge, MA, where we build risk-aware, field-ready AI systems that unlock general purpose intelligence for robotics.

FAIRI is looking for a Senior Data Operations Engineer to run the day-to-day of our data operations function: building the tooling the pipeline runs on, staying hands-on enough to dogfood and stress-test that tooling yourself, and managing the interns and contractors who carry out the bulk of day-to-day collection and annotation. You’ll work directly with the Research Operations Partner to scale FAIRI’s in-house data function, and you’ll set the technical and operational bar the rest of the Data Operations Engineering team is built around.

What You’ll Do

Data Tooling & Infrastructure — 25%

• Build and maintain hardware sensor suites — sensor harnesses, camera arrays, mounting fixtures, wearable sensor stacks (including soldering and cable assembly).

• Write and maintain QA scripts for in-house and vendor data drops.

• Build and maintain annotation software and other internal data tooling.

Data Collection & Annotation — 25%

• Run motion capture, teleoperation, and human-subjects data collection sessions yourself — the fastest way to dogfood and stress-test tooling and protocols before handing them to the team.

• Annotate robotics/AV datasets (object interaction, contact state, multi-agent) against FAIRI’s evaluation framework.

• Use hands-on collection and annotation work to surface tooling gaps and drive the tooling roadmap above.