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Sr. Data Engineer

140k – 180kAnn Arbor, MIHouston, TXSan Francisco, CAOnsite4+ YOE
Summary

Senior Data Engineer owning end-to-end data domains for industrial plant operations. Designs pipelines, schemas, and contracts from messy sensor/lab sources to support ML and operational decisions.

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Work across domains—for example, all plant sensor and historian data, or all lab and analytical results—including schema design, orchestration, reliability, and the contract it exposes to everyone downstream.
  • Design and evolve our fleet of pipelines that pull from messy industrial sources—sensors, lab systems, historians, imagery, and more—into our databases and warehouse.
  • Model time-series and analytical plant data for both human analysis and machine learning training, validation, and monitoring; own data quality, observability, and lineage in your domain.
  • Build the data architecture that feeds production ML—the training and monitoring layer—in partnership with the ML engineers who own the model-specific semantics.
  • Mentor earlier-career engineers and define the data contracts other teams build against.
  • Work the boundary with machine learning deliberately: you own the platform and the interface it exposes; ML engineers own the features and models built on top of it. The training and monitoring layer is shared ground you design together.

Desired Qualifications

  • 4+ years in data engineering or a closely related role.
  • Strong Python and SQL, with deep experience designing database and warehouse schemas, including time-series and/or analytical data.
  • Proven experience building reliable, orchestrated data pipelines and operating them in the cloud with containers and CI/CD.
  • Experience with data quality, observability, and lineage, and comfort with messy real-world sources—drifting sensors, malformed exports, and the quirks of industrial systems.
  • A self-starter comfortable in high-ambiguity environments, working directly with process engineers, ML engineers, and operations teams.
  • Bonus: experience feeding data to ML systems—training datasets, feature pipelines, model monitoring—or working with industrial, sensor, or historian data.
Skills
PythonSQLData PipelinesDatabase Schema DesignData QualityData ObservabilityData LineageCI/CDContainersTime-Series Data
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