Corvus Robotics

Sr. ML Ops Engineer at Corvus Robotics (United States)

Corvus Robotics· United States·

Role details

Work type
Hybrid
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

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.

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