Data Loop Pipeline Engineer

About You:

• You think data infrastructure is a craft. You have built pipelines that ran unattended for months and you have felt the specific satisfaction of a dataset that is exactly what it claims to be. You'd rather prevent a data problem than debug a model trained on one.
• You will own the machinery that turns flight and simulation output into trustworthy, versioned, traceable training data - and turns deployed behavior back into the next training set.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate ingestion pipelines for flight test, simulation and operational data, including format normalization, time alignment across sources, and quality validation at the gate.
• Implement dataset curation and versioning with full lineage: what went into a dataset, from where, processed how, and by which version of which tool.
• Build automated mining and triage for the rare and interesting - anomalies, disagreements between learned and rule-based systems, near-boundary events - so the flywheel prioritizes signal over volume.
• Own labeling workflows and tooling, including quality control and inter-annotator agreement where human labeling is involved.
• Close the loop: instrument deployed-system behavior so that operational signal reliably reaches the next training cycle without manual shepherding.
• Work with Flight Test & Operations on logging and instrumentation requirements, and help resolve access constraints where data is captured by third-party systems.
• Monitor pipeline health and dataset coverage; alert on drift, gaps and silent breakage.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Math, or a related subject.
• 3+ years in data engineering, with production ownership of pipelines feeding ML training.
• Strong Python and SQL; solid grasp of data modeling, storage formats and processing frameworks.
• Experience with dataset versioning and lineage tooling.
• Comfort with high-volume time-series and multimodal sensor data - telemetry, video, audio, structured logs.
• Care about correctness. In this role a quiet data bug becomes a model behavior nobody can explain.

Nice to Have:

• Robotics, autonomous vehicle or aerospace data experience.
• Familiarity with flight data formats and avionics bus data.
• Experience building internal tools that engineers actually chose to use.
• Data governance or provenance work in a regulated environment.

Logistics:

• We welcome remote applicants for this role, with a preference for candidates based in or willing to relocate to Boston, MA for a hybrid work schedule at our HQ.