Software Engineer Generalist at XDOF
San Francisco, CA
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Jul 12, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A generalist engineering role at a robotics data company, focused on building and maintaining the software infrastructure that supports large-scale training data collection for robotics. Day-to-day work spans backend services, data processing pipelines, hardware integrations, and internal tooling — shifting based on priority. Best suited to engineers comfortable moving across domains without a fixed specialization, ideally with some exposure to hardware systems, data-heavy workloads, or AI/robotics contexts.
Mid level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 309,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 186,000–464,500
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The JD lists a bachelor's degree 'or equivalent experience' — no hard degree gate; the degree requirement is set to None.
Python is the only named technology explicitly required ('fluency with Python and at least one other language'). The second language is unspecified, so no additional language skill is emitted.
Backend services/APIs, data pipelines, orchestration, full-stack work, hardware integrations, and cloud infrastructure are all described as example work areas rather than gated requirements; they are captured as preferred skills where a concrete technology name exists.
No compensation range was stated in the posting.
The title carries no seniority level word; advertised seniority is Unspecified. The requirements (degree or equivalent, Python fluency, comfort across the stack) support a Mid-level band — the role is broadly scoped but does not demand the end-to-end ownership or depth typical of Senior.
Caller instruction overrides the posted San Mateo, CA location: role is treated as fully remote with no metro assigned.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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