# Software Engineer, Data Platform

**Company:** [Preload](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-companies/preload)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Work mode:** On-site
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 150K–225K/yr
**Category:** Engineering
**Department:** Engineering
**Listed:** 2026-11-10

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/software-engineer-data-platform-121721)

## What you'll do

- Build data collection software syncing video, tactile, and EMG streams
- Build tools for field teams to run collection sessions
- Design ingestion pipelines, storage, and metadata/labeling systems
- Build APIs and tooling to deliver datasets to ML teams
- Own reliability, monitoring, and scaling as collection grows

## What you need

- 2+ yrs backend or data systems engineering
- Strong Python with AWS/GCP and data pipelines
- Device communication, streaming, and timestamps experience
- Large video or sensor datasets experience
- Embedded, mobile, or robotics software experience

## Job description

**About Preload**

Preload builds the data layer for physical AI. Robots learn mostly from video, but human interaction is much richer: touch, force, and muscle activity. We build a wearable multimodal stack (egocentric video, tactile gloves, EMG) to capture how people actually interact with the physical world, and turn it into datasets robotics teams can train on. We're a YC (F26) team of PhD founders from Johns Hopkins and Caltech with backgrounds at Neuralink, Paradromics, and other neurotech companies.

**The role**

You'll own the software end to end: from the apps that capture data on our wearables, to the pipelines that store, process, and serve large multimodal datasets.

**What you'll do**

-   Build data collection software that syncs video, tactile, and EMG streams from our devices
-   Build tools that field teams use to run collection sessions reliably
-   Design ingestion pipelines, storage, and metadata/labeling systems in the cloud
-   Build APIs and tooling to deliver datasets to ML teams and customers
-   Own reliability, monitoring, and scaling as collection grows

**What we're looking for**

-   2+ years as a software engineer building backend or data systems
-   Strong Python; experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) and data pipelines
-   Comfortable working close to hardware: device communication, streaming, timestamps
-   Experience with large video or sensor datasets is a plus
-   Experience with embedded, mobile, or robotics software is a plus

**Why join**

Early, in-person team in San Francisco. You'll be the first dedicated engineer on our data platform.

## Other open roles at Preload

- [Summer 2027 Intern (Any Team)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/summer-2027-intern-any-team-121727) — San Francisco, CA
- [Mechanical / Soft-Goods Designer (Wearables)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/mechanical-soft-goods-designer-wearables-121725) — San Francisco, CA
- [Pitch Your Own Role](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/pitch-your-own-role-121724) — San Francisco, CA
- [Sensor Engineer (Wearables)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/sensor-engineer-wearables-121720) — San Francisco, CA
- [Robotics Scientist (Policy Learning)](https://zerogtalent.com/robotics-jobs/preload/robotics-scientist-policy-learning-121719) — San Francisco, CA

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