The role
As a Lead Data Engineer at Miso Robotics, you will design, build, and operate the data infrastructure that supports perception, autonomy, and product analytics for kitchen automation systems, working closely with machine learning and software engineering teams to ensure high-quality, reliable data flows from deployed robots to training, evaluation, and production environments. You will own end-to-end data pipelines for sensor data (including cameras), telemetry, diagnostics, and performance data, leveraging AWS and GCP cloud environments and SQL-based data platforms to enable scalable ingestion, storage, analysis, and reporting. You will partner with ML engineers to support model training, validation, and monitoring, and collaborate with software teams to integrate data capture, logging, and feedback loops into production kitchen deployments. As a technical leader, you will establish data standards, ensure data quality and governance, optimize performance and cost, and translate product, operational, and reliability needs into robust, production-ready data systems that accelerate iteration and improve automation performance in real-world kitchens.
What You’ll Do
- Develop scalable data pipelines for sensor data, telemetry, diags, &performance metrics
- Build cloud data infrastructure using AWS and GCP for analytics and ML workloads
- Develop and optimize SQL data models and queries for reporting and analysis
- Partner with ML engineers to support dataset generation, training, validation, and monitoring
- Collaborate with software teams to integrate data capture and logging into production robots
- Define data quality checks, validation, and governance standards
- Enable system diagnostics and health monitoring through metrics, dashboards, and alerts
- Optimize data pipelines for reliability, performance, and cost
- Provide curated datasets and tools to support experimentation and analysis
- Lead data architecture decisions and mentor engineers across teams
Requirements
- BS Computer Science
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience; many releases of production quality deployments
- Data pipeline design and orchestration
- Cloud data platforms on AWS and GCP
- SQL and data modeling for analytics
- Streaming and batch data processing
- Sensor, telemetry, and log data handling
- ML data support and dataset management
- Data quality, validation, and governance
- Monitoring, metrics, and diagnostics systems
- Performance and cost optimization
- Linux-based data engineering environments
- Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail, analytical skills, and ability to learn / adapt quickly
- Collaborative team player with a drive to take initiative and ownership
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What We Do
Miso Robotics is building AI-powered automation for commercial kitchens, starting with Flippy, the industry's first fully autonomous fry station robot deployed at commercial scale. If you're an AI or robotics engineer who wants to see your work in action every single day, solving real problems for real people, this is where that happens.
We're tackling one of the hardest robotics challenges: unstructured environments. Restaurant kitchens are chaotic, unpredictable, and unforgiving. Orders surge randomly, equipment varies by location, and there's zero tolerance for downtime. Our robots work alongside humans in 350-degree heat, handling multiple tasks simultaneously while adapting in real time. It's computer vision, motion planning, and AI decision-making at the edge, all day, every day.
Our tech stack is cutting edge. We use NVIDIA AI for vision and inference, custom motion control algorithms, and machine learning models that continuously improve from real-world data across dozens of live deployments. The impact is immediate and measurable. When a restaurant operator tells us our robot "had their back" during a lunch rush, or a worker says Flippy is their "best friend," that's our mission in action.
Beyond Flippy, our Innovation Lab in Pasadena develops next-generation kitchen automation. We're expanding into new stations, new tasks, and new capabilities. The kitchen of the future needs engineers who can build systems that actually work when the stakes are high and the environment is hostile.
You'll work with a team that includes product leaders from Amazon and Ring, robotics engineers solving novel manipulation problems, and a CEO who gets that great technology means nothing if it breaks down during dinner rush. We obsess over real-world performance, not lab demos.
Why Work With Us
We're revolutionizing food service with AI robotics that solve real labor challenges. Join us to build cutting-edge technology that's already deployed in major chains, work with a mission-driven team backed by strong funding, and shape the future of an industry ripe for innovation.
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