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Our autonomous robots and multi-modal data collection systems are transforming how retailers manage inventory and make data-driven decisions.\nPosition Overview\nThe Data Engineer in will own the design, implementation, and scaling of our analytics infrastructure to form the foundation of a cohesive analytics ecosystem. This role also empowers analytics engineers and data scientists to follow DataOps best practices to independently create metrics. Additionally, the Data Engineer will interface with the application database team to synergistically improve the overall cloud ecosystem, enabling scalable ways to share large volumes of data with clients. 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