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ML Systems Engineer, Robotics

at Scale AI

📍 San Francisco, CA Onsite Posted April 02, 2026
Type Full-Time
Experience senior
Exp. Years 4+ years
Education Not specified
Category AI & Machine Learning

Scale AI seeks an ML Systems Engineer to build scalable backend platforms for serving foundation models in robotics and Physical AI, bridging research and production engineering.

  • Build & scale fault-tolerant, high-performance systems for serving robotics models at scale
  • Platform development to enable model capability discovery for faster research iterations
  • Collaborate with robotics researchers and computer vision engineers to optimize models for production and research
  • Conduct architecture and design reviews for scalability, reliability, and security
  • Develop observability and monitoring for real-time performance of model inference

You will design fault-tolerant, high-performance ML serving platforms, develop internal platforms for model capability discovery, and collaborate with robotics researchers and CV engineers. The tech stack includes Python/Go/Rust/C++, CUDA, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud providers (AWS/GCP) with GPU-accelerated inference and data pipelines.

4+ years of experience building large-scalehigh-performance backend systemsCUDAkernel tuningPythonGoRustC++KubernetesDockerAWSAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformTerraformInfrastructure as CodeROSROS2
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) modelsFFmpegNVDEC/NVENC3D data handling (point clouds)ROS/ROS2 familiarityAV data formats
DockerKubernetesTerraformAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformFFmpegNVDECNVENCROSROS2
PythonGoRustC++CUDAkernel tuningDockerKubernetesAWSAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformTerraformInfrastructure as CodeFFmpegNVDEC/NVENCROSROS2GPUobservabilitymodel serving
PythonGoRustC++CUDAkernel tuningDockerKubernetesAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformTerraformInfrastructure as CodeFFmpegNVDECNVENCROSROS2
CollaborationCommunicationProblem-solvingIndependenceLeadershipOwnership
Industry SaaS
Job Function Develop and operate scalable ML serving platforms for robotics foundation models.
Role Subtype ML Systems Engineer
ML Systems EngineerRoboticsPhysical AIfoundation modelsmachine learning infrastructureCUDAkernel tuningPythonGoRustC++DockerKubernetesTerraformInfrastructure as CodeAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformFFmpegNVDECNVENCROSROS2observabilitymodel serving

Less than 4 years backend systems experience, No CUDA or GPU optimization experience, No Kubernetes or Docker experience, No Python/Go/C++ proficiency

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