--- title: 'Data Engineer at Humble Robotics' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/data-engineer-humble-robotics-san-francisco-jgj3vwz9af3s' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Data Engineer at Humble Robotics - **Company:** Humble Robotics - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-04-21 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/humble-robotics/f187c481-ece9-4ea5-8cce-3bcd96f7001e ## Job description ## About Humble Robotics Working at Humble Robotics means taking on the biggest change in ground transportation in decades. We're building an autonomous, zero-emissions hauler that dramatically lowers the cost of freight with groundbreaking vision-based AI, designed for today's global logistics network. We're a fast-moving, close-knit team of AV industry veterans and innovative thinkers. We don't believe culture can be engineered – but when it falls into place, it's a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Progress has never felt so present. Position Overview We're looking for a data engineer to help us turn raw driving data into the well-structured, queryable, and trustworthy datasets that power our autonomy stack. You'll work across the full lifecycle of our data, from ingestion to the point it gets pulled into a training run, and your work will directly shape how quickly the rest of the team can iterate. ## Key Responsibilities - Build and maintain pipelines that ingest, validate, and process multi-modal sensor logs from our vehicles - Design schemas and data models that make our driving data discoverable and queryable for ML training, evaluation, and debugging - Turn raw driving data into the derived signals, annotations, and aggregates that downstream teams consume - Write tooling that the broader team relies on day-to-day: data loaders, query interfaces, dataset assembly utilities - Collaborate closely with ML, vehicle software, curation, and fleet operations to make sure data flows smoothly from collection through to model training - Contribute to the design of our data stack, making decisions that scale with the team and the fleet ## Minimum Qualifications - BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, or a related field — or equivalent industry experience - Strong proficiency in Python, including writing maintainable code that other engineers will read and extend - Solid database fundamentals and an intuition for designing schemas that hold up as requirements evolve - Working understanding of how ML training pipelines consume data, and an eye for designing upstream systems that serve them well - Comfortable working in large codebases and modern build/dev environments (Bazel, monorepos, dev containers, or similar) - Curious, flexible, and pragmatic — able to pick up unfamiliar tools and reason from first principles rather than relying on prior recipes - Eligible to work in the United States ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience working with data in an autonomous vehicle, robotics, or similar context - Familiarity with Foxglove, rerun, or similar visualization/data-platform tooling - Experience designing or maintaining data catalogs, metadata stores, or feature stores - Background in handling high-volume multi-modal data (video, point clouds, time-series) at terabyte-plus scale - Cloud data engineering experience (GCP or AWS — object storage, serverless triggers, batch processing) - Comfort operating as an early team member — high ownership, low ego, fast iteration ## Compensation This role is eligible for base salary + benefits + equity compensation. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including qualifications, skills, experience, and location. Additional Information As part of the interview process, we may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to compare your qualifications and experience to the job description. A human reviews all AI output and makes a final hiring decision. Humble Robotics does not rely on the output to make any employment decisions. Some applicants may have a legal right to opt-out of the use of AI as part of our interview process. Contact **legal@humblerobotics.ai** to exercise this right or if you have further questions on the use of AI tools in our hiring process. Humble Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law. Humble Robotics will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with local ordinances. ## About Humble Robotics ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Humble Robotics develops fully autonomous, electric Class 8 haulers to decarbonize and lower the cost of commercial freight transportation. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2026 - **Founders**: Eyal Cohen ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Autonomous vehicles, Robotics, Logistics, Freight transportation - Target customers: Enterprise logistics providers, freight carriers, and global supply chain networks (B2B) - Mission or purpose statement: "Decarbonizing freight transportation, the backbone of global supply chains but also a major contributor to greenhouse gases." ## Products & Services - **[Humble Hauler]**: A fully autonomous, electric Class 8 hauler designed for dock-to-dock freight movement. It is cabless, features 360º visibility, and uses vision-first autonomy (vision-language-action models) on a low-cost, flexible hardware platform that supports multiple vehicle configurations. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: $24 million in total funding (Seed round) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Eclipse (lead investor), Energy Impact Partners. Backed by veteran industry advisors. - **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2026 and already raised a $24M seed round; team of 26 employees; actively hiring for 13+ open roles in engineering and autonomy. Has launched initial pilots with leading logistics partners toward commercial deployment. ## Competitive Advantages - **Purpose-built, cabless design**: Removing the front cab enables 360º visibility and lowers structural costs. - **Vision-first autonomy (VLA models)**: Uses advanced physical AI that adapts to complex, real-world logistics scenarios. - **Experienced team**: Hails from companies like Google, Uber, Apple, Tesla, and Rivian, with deep expertise in autonomy and trucking. - **End-to-end focus**: Targeting a complete dock-to-dock solution, not just highway autonomy, differentiating from many autonomous trucking competitors. ## Strategic Focus - Continue development of the autonomous hauler platform. - Launch and scale initial pilot programs with logistics partners. - Move toward early-stage manufacturing and broader commercial deployment. - Grow the engineering team across autonomy, hardware, and software disciplines. ## Why Work Here - **Team & Culture**: Described as a "fast-moving, close-knit team of AV industry veterans and innovative thinkers" with a "high responsibility, high reward" ethos. Emphasizes "fun, challenging problems" and "brilliant talent to learn from." - **Work Model**: On-site in San Francisco. Flexible work schedules and "amazing benefits" are advertised. Office is located at the "center of AV innovation." - **Engineering Culture**: 59% of the workforce is in technical roles. Actively recruiting for engineers in autonomy, simulation, embedded systems, vehicle systems, hardware validation, data engineering, and more. Works with a modern tech stack including Python, PyTorch, CUDA, Linux, Bazel, Terraform, and simulation tools. - **Growth Opportunity**: Early-stage company tackling a massive challenge (decarbonizing freight), offering high ownership and impact from day one. ## Sources 1. [humblerobotics.ai - Company Page](https://humblerobotics.ai/company) 2. [humblerobotics.ai - Careers Page](https://humblerobotics.ai/careers) 3. [LinkedIn - Humble Robotics](https://linkedin.com/company/humblerobotics) 4. [Built In - Humble Robotics](https://builtin.com/company/humble-robotics) 5. 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