
Sr. ML Ops Engineer at Corvus Robotics (United States)
Corvus Robotics· United States·
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About Corvus
Every physical good spends time in a warehouse, and every warehouse tracks their inventory. Today, nearly 100% of warehouses track their inventory manually using barcode scanners and climbing forklifts. We're Corvus Robotics. Our fully autonomous Corvus One™ drones use computer vision & robotics to automatically track inventory, improving worker safety and increasing labor efficiency. We believe that data-driven, safe inventory management will optimize the global physical economy and improve economic prosperity for humanity.
About the Role
With a growing fleet of autonomous drones and an expanding customer base, we're now ready to multiply ML iteration speed and unblock more advanced ML product delivery. We're hiring a systems-oriented Senior Software Engineer to build the data infrastructure, training pipelines, and internal tooling that our ML team needs to move faster.
Specifically in this role you will:
- Build and maintain the data pipeline infrastructure that consolidates internal infra, labeling tools, S3, and other data sources into a unified, queryable system
- Build tooling for dataset selection and curation that can programmatically target specific data (by environment, object type, etc.)
- Own ML data infra from robot to training run, accessible to the ML team without backend engineering help
- Build model evaluation and regression testing infrastructure -- real metrics, not vibes or "someone complained in prod"
- Automate the model retuning loop for standard tasks so ML engineers can be mostly hands-off on routine updates
This is a hybrid or remote role with periodic trips to HQ in Mountain View, CA.
Must Haves
- 2-3 years shipping real production ML infrastructure for big datasets, not just scripts
- Experience building distributed data pipelines that consolidate multiple sources
- Demonstrated understanding of data flow from raw collection, labeled training set, to trained models
- Experience building systems from scratch, or contributed heavily to a small-team infra build where the playbook didn't exist
- Ability to thrive in a startup environment with high ambiguity. You'll figure out what to build
Nice to Haves
- Experience setting up annotation tooling and workflows
- Background in robotics autonomy and computer vision
Experience integrating with tools like Kubeflow, SLURM, or similar for scalable training workflows
Why work at Corvus Robotics
- Culture: Mission-driven team focused on solving “some of the hardest problems” in robotics and AI with a pragmatic, direct communication style. Core values include “Whatever it takes,” “Be a good person,” and “Do work you’re proud of.”
- Work policy: Hybrid/onsite presence in Mountain View, CA (Bay Area). Some roles (like Assembly Technician and Hardware roles) require on-site work; software roles may have flexible hybrid schedules as noted by team testimonials.
- Notable perks/culture highlights:
- High-density engineering talent — founders and CTO come from MIT and Northwestern robotics programs
- Real-world impact: Employees work directly with customers to see robots in action in warehouses
- “Cutting-edge innovation” in computer vision, robotics, and AI
- Strong team culture described by current engineers as welcoming, collaborative, and focused on impactful work
- Open to extraordinary talent: Career page explicitly invites candidates who don’t fit a job description to email career@corvus-robotics.com
- Current open roles (as of late 2024/2025): Robotics Software Engineer, Robotics Deployment Manager, Production Lead, Assembly Technician, Head of Marketing, and other specialized roles — signaling strong operational scaling.