Software Engineer II at Tailored Management in Menlo Park, CA

Job description

• Title: Software Engineer II (Robotics)
• Location: Menlo Park, CA
• Duration: 3 Months (Possibility of extension)
• Pay: $70-76/hr on W2
• Join the small team building Conductor, the data and operations platform for our robotics program. Conductor manages high-volume, multimodal robot data from ingestion through quality control, discovery, training, and evaluation. You will own meaningful production systems, work directly with researchers and robotics engineers, and ship quickly with a high degree of autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Build reliable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines using Python and Go across PostgreSQL and AWS/S3.
• Design systems for ingesting, indexing, transforming, validating, and serving large robotics datasets.
• Develop agentic and LLM-powered workflows for data quality, enrichment, automation, and research productivity, with appropriate evaluations and guardrails.
• Improve performance, observability, correctness, and operational reliability across the platform.
• Take projects end to end: clarify requirements, make pragmatic design choices, implement, test, deploy, and iterate with users.

Requirements

• Exceptional software-engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, systems, databases, and debugging.
• Evidence of building a substantial backend, data-intensive, distributed, or developer-infrastructure system through internships, research, open source, or ambitious independent/course projects.
• Strong programming skills and experience with at least one statically typed language; working knowledge of SQL.
• Ability to write clear, maintainable production code and reason carefully about reliability, performance, and data correctness.
• High ownership, intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, and comfort moving quickly in an ambiguous environment.
• Maintaining or making substantial contributions to a respected open-source project
• Internships on data, infrastructure, databases, ML platforms, or developer tools
• Building useful agentic workflows with real evaluations; systems research; or exceptional technical projects with real users or meaningful scale.
• A BS/MS in computer science or a related field from a program with a strong systems culture is helpful, but demonstrated ability matters more than pedigree.

Skills

Required

• Python
• Go
• SQL
• PostgreSQL
• AWS/S3
• Data structures
• Algorithms
• Systems
• Databases
• Debugging
• Backend development
• Data pipelines

Preferred

• Open-source contributions
• Agentic workflows
• LLM-powered workflows
• Systems research