# Robotics Data Quality Engineer

**Company:** [Xdof](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/xdof)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Skills:** Python, NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, Plotly, 3D Geometry, Coordinate Frames, Spatial Transformations, Protobuf, Hdf5, Ros Bags, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, Time-Series Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-06-15

> Analyze, validate, and build tooling around robotics data from teleoperation, egocentric capture, and grippers. Build automated validation pipelines, data schemas, and visualization tools to ensure high-quality training data.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
Data quality engineers are the bridge between raw collection and usable training data. Sample projects include:

- analyzing robotics data across modalities to identify quality issues: plotting joint velocities, validating camera poses, checking gripper encoder accuracy, and flagging anomalous collection sessions
- building automated validation pipelines that run on ingestion and catch problems before data enters the warehouse
- designing and documenting data formats and schemas across collection modalities, ensuring they are consistent, versioned, and well-understood by partners and internal researchers
- building data visualization tools and dashboards so the broader team can inspect and understand the data without writing custom scripts
- validating cross-modal temporal alignment, including timestamp synchronization, dropped frame detection, and clock drift across camera, joint, and gripper streams
- defining quality metrics and thresholds per modality and tracking whether data quality is improving or degrading as collection scales
- cataloging edge cases and failure modes into a shared taxonomy so the team has a common language for data issues
- working closely with data collection operators to trace quality issues back to their root cause, whether systemic (hardware calibration, sensor drift) or operator-specific

## About You
**Baseline skills:**
- bachelor’s or master’s degree (or equivalent experience) in robotics, computer science, mechanical engineering, or a related field
- strong Python data skills (numpy, pandas, matplotlib or plotly) and comfort working with large, messy datasets
- solid understanding of 3D geometry, coordinate frames, and spatial transformations
- intuition for physical systems: you can look at a trajectory or a joint velocity plot and tell when something is off
- experience designing or working with structured data formats (protobuf, HDF5, ROS bags, or similar)

**You might be a good fit if you:**
- have hands-on experience with robotics data, whether from a research lab, a robotics startup, or a manipulation/locomotion project
- have worked with teleoperation systems, motion capture, or egocentric data collection
- have experience with signal processing, sensor fusion, or time-series analysis
- have built internal data visualization tools or dashboards for technical teams
- have worked on data versioning, lineage tracking, or schema migration in a production setting
- are very comfortable working in 0→1 environments
- are mission-driven and passionate about robotics: work at xdof is fast-paced and constant. We hope you love what you’re going to be doing, because you’ll be doing a lot of it!

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