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Software Engineer, Data

Kovari

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Location
San Francisco, CA
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Job overview

Kovari is hiring a Software Engineer, Data to own the data flywheel that trains its robots, from collecting data on deployed fleets to preparing curated training datasets. The role builds pipelines and tools for multimodal data, manages training-data infrastructure, and connects field performance to data. The team works in person in San Francisco and collaborates with research and operations to address failures.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Machine LearningApache SparkInfrastructureSensorsApache BeamData EngineeringRoboticsSoftware EngineeringPythonSystems ProgrammingLarge-Scale Data PipelinesRayCloud Storage and ComputeAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformParquetApache ArrowTime-Synchronized Sensor or Video DataML Training InfrastructureRobotics DataBias Toward Action

Full job description

About Kovari Kovari develops frontier technology to transform physical businesses. We partner with established operators to change how they run, and we build and operate businesses of our own through our subsidiaries. We are a small team of builders, operators, and researchers. We deploy on site, alongside the businesses we serve, and iterate in the field. We have raised over $6M from leading investors. We are based in San Francisco and work in person. The Role You will own the data flywheel that trains our robots, from collection on deployed fleets to curated datasets ready for training. Your pipelines turn messy real-world data into the fuel for every policy we ship. What You'll Do

  • Build ingestion pipelines for robot logs, teleoperation, video, depth, force/torque, and proprioception

  • Design storage, indexing, and retrieval for multimodal datasets at scale

  • Build tools for labeling, filtering, search, and dataset curation

  • Own training data infrastructure: versioning, lineage, and reproducibility

  • Build evaluation pipelines that tie field performance back to data

  • Work with research and operations to close the loop from failure to fix

What You Bring

  • Strong software engineering in Python and at least one systems language

  • Experience building large-scale data pipelines (Spark, Ray, Beam, or similar)

  • Familiarity with cloud storage and compute (AWS, GCP) and columnar formats (Parquet, Arrow)

  • Experience with time-synchronized sensor or video data

  • Bonus: ML training infrastructure or robotics data experience

  • Bias toward action: ship fast, measure, iterate

Values

  • Pace of learning trumps everything.

  • Relentless refinement of our craft.

  • Low ego, high ownership.

  • All-in on the mission. We work in person, and this isn't a 9-to-5.

How this job compares

Set against the 34,081 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • California median$165–246K/yr7,362 salary ranges
  • California median$48–65/hr109 hourly ranges
Openings
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Experience
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Education
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