Senior Member of Technical Staff: Data & Training Infrastructure

Position Summary

You'll build and scale the infrastructure where data meets training—the systems that feed data efficiently into large-scale training and keep those runs fast, stable, and reproducible. As a senior IC you lead this workstream together with our world-class data team and are a force multiplier for the research teams that depend on it.

Core Responsibilities

• Data Path: Design and scale the data-loading, sharing, and caching that feeds large training runs.
• Training Reliability: Design and implement training-infra efficiency and reliability—throughput, utilization, checkpointing, fault tolerance.
• Bottleneck Removal: Find and remove bottlenecks between the data platform and training.
• Observability: Build tooling that makes training performance and failures easy to understand.
• Technical Leadership: Set standards and mentor MTS engineers across data and training infra.

Required Qualifications

• Systems / ML Infra: Strong background with experience supporting large-scale training.
• Distributed Training: Deep understanding of distributed-training performance and the data path that feeds it.
• Technical Judgment: The ability to lead a work stream and make high-leverage infrastructure decisions.
• Performance: A rigorous, measurement-driven approach to performance work.
• Leadership: Experience mentoring engineers and setting technical standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large multimodal or video training pipelines.
• Familiarity with accelerator utilization, high-performance I/O, or distributed storage.
• Contributions to training-infrastructure or performance tooling.

Pay and benefits

Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program, including salary, annual cash bonus, company equity, company-subsidized insurance programs, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, daily lunch, and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.

• About Company ---

At Walden Robotics, we envision a world where general-purpose robots dramatically improve the quality of life for all people—supporting us at home, at work, in factories, on farms, and beyond. To accomplish this, we are building a team of exceptional professionals who combine world-class technical skills with creative vision, grounded in humility and collaboration.