Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Machine Learning Data Engineer role sits at the increasingly important intersection of SaaS delivery and ML-enabled products: turning messy, customer-supplied inputs and synthetic data into dependable, reusable datasets. For a platform like Replica—positioned around simulation and digital twins—the “data layer” is effectively part of the product, making pipeline reliability, schema design, and dataset quality central to what customers ultimately experience.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the work maps closely to challenges seen in modern data-heavy platforms: establishing data contracts, building validation and observability signals, and creating tooling for versioning and curation that supports iterative model development. The emphasis on end-to-end flow—from ingestion through structured formats for training and production—develops transferable skills for ML platform and data infrastructure tracks across SaaS companies adopting AI features.
This role is best suited to engineers who prefer ownership of foundational systems, enjoy defining standards as much as writing code, and can collaborate closely with ML teams to translate modeling needs into robust data interfaces. It will particularly resonate with professionals who want their data engineering work to be tightly coupled to product outcomes rather than isolated analytics pipelines.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Parallel Domain is building the world’s most advanced simulation and digital twin platform for autonomy, robotics, and computer vision. Our Replica product creates large-scale, photorealistic digital twins of real-world environments used for testing, validation, and development of autonomous systems.
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About the role:- We are hiring a Machine Learning Data Engineer responsible for building and scaling the data pipelines that support Replica and ML model development. You will ensure that data flows efficiently from raw customer inputs through validated, structured formats suitable for training, evaluation, and production systems.
What you'll do:- Own data ingestion: Build reliable pipelines to normalize and validate customer and synthetic data.
- Define data standards: Create schemas, validation checks, and quality metrics for Replica datasets.
- Build curation tooling: Implement tools for dataset filtering, versioning, and annotation support.
- Enable ML workflows: Generate high-quality data feeds for training and evaluation across ML models.
What you’ll bring:- Data engineering experience: Proven experience building scalable data pipelines and tooling.
- ML-aware engineering: Understanding of how data is used in model training and evaluation.
- 3D Foundations: Practical experience with 3D concepts, geometry, and the linear algebra principles underpinning computer vision (e.g., projections, transformations)
- Technical skills: Strong Python proficiency and comfort with large datasets.
- Collaborative mindset: Experience working closely with ML engineers on data needs.
What will help you stand out:- Advanced degree: MS or PhD in ML, computer vision, robotics, or related field.
- Cloud/infra experience: Familiarity with cloud storage and distributed processing frameworks.
- Robotics data knowledge: Experience handling camera, lidar, or radar data
- Visualization tools experience: Familiarity with data visualization systems like Foxglove, Rerun, or Voxel51
- MLOps tooling exposure: Experience with dataset versioning, preprocessing automation, or training pipeline orchestration.
What we offer:- Competitive compensation: A base pay range of $130,000 - $160,000/yr, depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
- Impactful work: The chance to contribute to the advancement of autonomous systems and AI.
- Collaborative culture: A dynamic and supportive work environment where your ideas are valued.
- Professional growth: Opportunities to learn and develop your skills in a cutting-edge field.
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If you're passionate about machine learning, 3D reconstruction, generative AI, and the future of autonomous systems, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help us revolutionize the world of AI!
This position is available in Vancouver, BC and Karlsruhe DE.
