Senior Data Engineer, MLOps

Path Robotics • Columbus, OH

7h

About The Position

At Path Robotics, we’re building the future of embodied intelligence. Our AI-driven systems enable robots to adapt, learn, and perform in the real world closing the skilled labor gap and transforming industries. We go beyond traditional methods, combining perception, reasoning, and control to deliver field-ready AI that is risk-aware, reliable, and continuously improving through real-world use. Big, hard problems are our everyday work, and our team of intelligent, humble, and driven people make the impossible possible together. You will play a mission-critical role in architecting our data platform, enabling our machine learning and robotics teams to move faster, experiment more effectively, and deploy AI solutions into production. This is a founding-level opportunity to lay the groundwork for our entire data infrastructure and build the data team. Reporting to the Director of AI, you’ll collaborate with a talented team of machine learning engineers and software engineers to deliver clean, reliable, and scalable data pipelines that fuel experimentation, production models, and cutting-edge AI development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong track record of building scalable data systems and infrastructure from the ground up.
• Previous experience supporting AI/ML teams with data platforms in fast-paced or startup environments.
• Deep proficiency in SQL, Python, and distributed data systems.
• Hands-on experience with tools like AWS, Snowflake, Dagster, dbt, or equivalent modern data stack.
• Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, or similar platforms for real-time data processing.
• Passionate about building clean, reliable data pipelines that power real-time ML and robotics workflows.
• Experience with data quality, observability, and production monitoring of data systems.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and taking ownership.
• You’re excited to build and own the foundation of a data-first company.

Nice To Haves

• experience working with sensor data, robotics logs, time series, or other high-volume real-world datasets.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build our end-to-end data platform, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, quality monitoring, and data access layers.
• Lead initiatives that break down data silos and enable seamless collaboration between business domains
• Design and develop optimized database architecture and data schemas with strategic partitioning for large scale multi-modal data.
• Implement scalable ETL/ELT pipelines that serve experimentation, training, validation, and real-time deployment needs across robotics and AI systems.
• Collaborate with ML and robotics engineers to define and deliver the data infrastructure required for cutting-edge model development and real-world deployment.
• Establish data governance, reproducibility, and lineage standards to ensure data integrity and traceability at scale.
• Develop data contracts and API specifications to ensure reliable data exchange between robotics systems, ML models, and downstream applications.
• Write production-grade, maintainable, and well-documented Python and SQL code for critical data workflows.
• Help shape our MLOps, observability, and CI/CD practices for continuous learning systems in physical environments.

Benefits

• Daily free lunch to keep you fueled and connected with the team
• Flexible PTO so you can take the time you need, when you need it
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 6 weeks fully paid parental leave, plus an additional 6–8 weeks for birthing parents (12–14 weeks total)
• 401(k) retirement plan through Empower
• Generous employee referral bonuses—help us grow our team!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees