Field Development Engineer

Posted 6 months ago San Francisco, CA full-time

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.

• 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

• 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%)

• 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

Python Customer Success LiDAR Sensor Fusion Robotics

Competitive salary and meaningful equity in the team building Fleet Learning Infrastructure for Physical AI

Full health, dental, and vision coverage, plus FSA and unlimited PTO

Work on the closed-loop data infrastructure that the next generation of autonomous systems learns from

A team that built Tesla Autopilot's data infrastructure, now building something bigger