Platform Engineer, Data

About this role

Allen Control Systems, a defense startup building autonomous drone-detection systems, seeks a Data Platform Engineer to design scalable infrastructure for curating and optimizing large-scale image and video datasets. You'll apply ML knowledge to implement advanced data strategies like coreset selection and synthetic generation, partnering closely with ML engineers to maximize model performance.

What you'll do

• Design and build scalable data infrastructure for organizing and curating growing image and video datasets
• Implement dataset optimization techniques such as hard example mining, class balancing, and embedding-based filtering
• Develop end-to-end computer vision pipelines including ingestion, QA, standardization, and organization
• Create and manage synthetic data generation workflows for training data
• Build data quality tooling to track balance, drift, and annotation errors with feedback loops
• Own dataset versioning, release management, and metadata cataloging systems

What they're looking for

• Data engineering and systems design
• Python scripting and data processing
• AWS data management and processing
• SQL and Linux
• Image and video data engineering
• ML/AI principles and model training dynamics
• Data quality and validation
• Cross-team communication and documentation

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity package
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off