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# Helix AI Engineer, Data Infrastructure

- **Company:** Helix
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Artificial Neural Networks, Microsoft Azure, Command-Line Interface, Cloud Engineering, Data Transmissions, Data Stores, Linux, Elasticsearch, Job Scheduling, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Ansible, Google Cloud, Backend, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Slurm, Puppet, Terraform, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/helix-ai-engineer-data-infrastructure-figure-2-5306345

## About the Role

* Strong software engineering fundamentals
 * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field
 * Minimum of 4 years of professional, full-time experience building reliable backend systems
 * Experience with Linux and command line tools
 * Experience with Python
 * Experience using and managing data stores (Postgres, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, etc.).

Bonus Qualifications

 * Experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
 * Experience with job scheduling / orchestration tools (SLURM, Kubernetes, LSF, etc.)
 * Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
 * Experience building data annotation and dataset management tools.

## Description

* Design, build, and maintain tools and software components that offload, store, manipulate and provide access to robot data
 * Architect and manage storage and compute resources across on-premise and cloud environments at a massive scale.
 * Implement optimal data transmission and storage solutions for all stages of Figure's data pipeline from recording to neural network training
 * Work together with AI researchers to support new kinds of data workflows


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