Software Engineer, II - Autonomy Data at Torc Robotics
Blacksburg
$139,000–$166,800
Aug 5, 2026
Blacksburg
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A data engineering role at an autonomous trucking software company, focused on designing and operating the data infrastructure that feeds perception, planning, and simulation teams. Day-to-day work spans building cloud-based ingestion pipelines for high-bandwidth vehicle sensor logs, curating ML training datasets, and deploying visualization tooling for log review and autonomy debugging. Best suited to engineers with hands-on pipeline and cloud data infrastructure experience, ideally in a sensor-data or robotics context.
Mid level · 4+ years · Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Pay in the description: $139,000–$166,800
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 190 people in this state plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 80–280
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $163,886 (middle half $128,301–$180,494). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 6, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is titled 'Autonomy Data Engineer Level 2', where 'Level 2' is an internal ladder designation. The posting requires 4+ years with a Bachelor's or 2+ years with a Master's, which maps to a Mid-level band despite the relatively senior compensation range ($139K–$167K).
Torc is headquartered in Blacksburg, VA, but the posting does not specify a work location or explicitly state remote eligibility; the CBSA reflects the company's known headquarters. Candidates should confirm location flexibility directly.
The role is restricted to U.S. citizens only due to access to export-controlled information and systems — this is a hard eligibility gate, not a clearance requirement.
AWS services (S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift) are listed in the required qualifications section alongside 'or equivalent', so they are treated as hard gates with cloud-platform alternatives noted. Terraform and CloudFormation are listed together as infrastructure-as-code options; Terraform is named first.
Foxglove and Rerun are listed under 'Bonus points' and are marked preferred. MCAP familiarity is also listed under 'Bonus points' and is marked preferred.
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) reflects that this role involves substantial pipeline and tooling development; however, the primary focus on data lake architecture, storage formats, partitioning, and data contracts aligns more closely with 15-1243 Database Architects.
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