Helix AI Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

About this role

Figure AI is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and scale real-time data infrastructure powering their humanoid robot platform. You'll architect high-throughput, low-latency systems handling media and sensor streams from robot fleets, working closely with AI and robotics teams in San Jose with 5 days/week in-office presence.

What you'll do

• Architect and scale cloud infrastructure for real-time streaming of media and sensor data across robot fleets
• Design low-latency data pipelines ingesting camera feeds, IMU data, and robot sensor outputs into the AI stack
• Own reliability, latency, and throughput SLAs for streaming and data infrastructure
• Integrate ML model serving into real-time data pipelines with AI and robotics teams
• Build observability, alerting, and monitoring tools for live robot traffic visibility
• Drive architectural decisions and mentor engineers across the organization

What they're looking for

• Cloud backend systems scaling (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Real-time data stream processing and low-latency architecture
• Distributed systems fundamentals
• Backend languages (Go, C++, Python, or Rust)
• Containerization and service mesh infrastructure
• High-bandwidth data transport and connection management
• AI inference serving integration (nice to have)
• Streaming protocols like gRPC, Kafka, WebRTC, or RTSP (nice to have)

Benefits

• Base salary: $150,000 - $400,000 annually
• Additional compensation components based on role
• Work on cutting-edge humanoid robotics technology
• Collaboration with AI and robotics engineering teams
• High-ownership senior-level position