Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Data Flywheel

Job overview

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Data Flywheel is an onsite role in Irvine, CA. Compensation is not specified. FieldAI’s Irvine team builds and tests field-ready AI systems on real robots and sensors. The engineer builds and automates the data lifecycle that turns robot experience into training-ready datasets and improved models. Working with perception and autonomy researchers and data and ML platform engineers, the role helps make data processing, labeling, validation, and retraining workflows reliable and efficient.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain pipelines that transform robot data into training datasets
• automate processing, filtering, selection, transformation, labeling, and dataset generation
• develop batch and offline inference pipelines for auto-labeling and data mining
• select useful or difficult examples
• integrate manual and automated labeling
• implement data-quality checks
• create reproducible, versioned datasets
• improve incremental dataset generation
• partner with researchers to productionize data-processing logic
• measure and improve the data-to-training cycle.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior machine learning engineer

data flywheel

irvine ca

fieldai

robotics

machine learning

data engineering

python

training data

autonomous robots

dataset pipelines

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Focuses on the data flywheel for autonomous robots operating in complex real-world environments; experience with computer vision, robotics, sensor data, auto-labeling, or distributed processing is a plus.

About the employer

FieldAI is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.