Software Engineer, II - Autonomy Data

About The Company:

At Torc, we develop software for automated trucks and are part of the Daimler family.

Meet The Team:

Torc is hiring an Autonomy Data Engineer Level 2 to help design, build and operate the data infrastructure that powers its autonomy program. The role builds pipelines, storage systems, and tooling that turn raw vehicle sensor logs into curated, structured datasets for perception, planning, and simulation engineers.

What You'll Do:

• Contribute to the design and organization of the program’s data lake, including schema definitions, partitioning strategy, and metadata indexing.
• Build and maintain reliable end-to-end pipelines that ingest high-bandwidth sensor logs from vehicles into cloud storage.
• Implement data validation, integrity checks, retention, tiering, and lifecycle policies.
• Build tooling and automation to produce curated training and evaluation datasets and support pseudo-labeling workflows.
• Implement data quality and model performance metrics.
• Deploy and maintain visualization tooling for log review, annotation QA, and autonomy debugging.
• Build integrations between visualization tooling and the data lake.
• Build dashboards showing data coverage by terrain type, operating environment, and geographic region.
• Establish data contracts between data services and model-training consumers.
• Partner with perception, planning, and embedded engineers across the data lifecycle.
• Contribute to data engineering standards, tooling choices, and the data roadmap.

What You'll Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 4+ years of data engineering experience, or a Master’s with 2+ years.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with cloud data infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Understanding of data partitioning strategies and columnar storage formats.
• Experience building and operating pipelines that process time-series and binary data.
• Ability to evaluate and integrate open-source tooling.
• Experience implementing monitoring, validation, and lineage tracking.

Bonus points!

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, robotics, or sensor-driven autonomous systems.
• Experience with Foxglove or Rerun.
• Familiarity with the MCAP CLI or Python library.
• Experience with data curation for machine-learning training.

U.S. Citizenship Requirement:

This position requires access to information and systems restricted under U.S. law. Only U.S. citizens are eligible.

Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r

• Competitive compensation package with a bonus component and stock options.
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees.
• 401K plan with a 6% employer match.
• Flexible schedule and generous paid vacation.
• Company-wide holiday office closures.
• AD+D and life insurance.

Torc is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. Even if you do not meet 100% of the listed qualifications, you are encouraged to apply.