Meta is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Operations Platform Engineer to own and evolve the robotics test and data infrastructure that underpins motor validation, experimentation, and downstream analysis. We are building next-generation robotic systems that operate in the real world and generate large volumes of high-fidelity data. As these systems scale, we need robust software infrastructure to ensure that motor control, testing, telemetry, and data pipelines are repeatable, observable, and usable across teams.This is a hands-on, builder role at the intersection of robotics hardware, system software, and data platforms. You’ll help research and engineering teams scale beyond one-off solutions by turning early prototypes into reliable, extensible systems that increase test throughput, improve data quality, and accelerate iteration.

Operations Platform Engineer Responsibilities:

• Design and build motor and actuator test infrastructure, including control loops, data capture, and validation tooling
• Develop and standardize repeatable test stations that scale across hardware variants, labs, and teams
• Define and implement telemetry schemas and data contracts for robotic systems (commands, feedback, environment, failures), ensuring consistency across programs
• Build time-synchronized data pipelines to support debugging, replay, offline analysis, and training workflows
• Establish observability standards for robotic systems, including metrics, logging, diagnostics, anomaly detection, and dashboards
• Partner closely with robotics hardware, firmware, research, safety, and operations teams to ensure systems are reliable, safe, and extensible
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in data quality, test throughput, and system reliability as usage scales to more teams and more robots
• Drive architecture decisions that balance rapid experimentation with long-term maintainability, operational robustness, and scalability
• Support fleet and lab validation workflows by enabling consistent test execution across platforms (e.g., Lithium, Ber, Boron, Carbon, Aloha, Mimmic, Trossen)
• Contribute to system-level failure understanding by enabling instrumentation and workflows that accelerate failure triage and root cause analysis
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, robotics engineering, or related fields
• 3+ years of experience working close to hardware, including motors, sensors, actuators, embedded systems, and/or embedded Linux environments
• Proven ability to design and build test frameworks or infrastructure for physical systems (labs, manufacturing tests, reliability rigs, end-of-line, or similar)
• Experience building data ingestion pipelines for high-frequency and/or real-time telemetry (including time sync, buffering, backpressure, and schema evolution)
• Systems engineering fundamentals: APIs, data schemas, failure modes, reliability, operational discipline and maintainable interfaces
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with evolving requirements
• Proven communication and collaboration skills across hardware, software, and research disciplines
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in industrial robotics, automation, embedded Linux, or real-time systems
• Experience with robotics data formats, replay systems, simulation pipelines, or log-based debugging at scale
• Familiarity with observability tooling and practices (metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting)
• Experience supporting ML or research teams through infrastructure (data capture, labeling support, dataset generation, evaluation pipelines) rather than model development
• Prior experience bringing prototype systems into scaled, multi-team usage, including documentation, onboarding, and operational support
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
  
  

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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$208,000/year to $289,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.