Built a high-throughput data platform from a blank page? Be the first dedicated data-platform engineer at a defense-tech company.
A Series A defense-tech company deploys autonomous sensor networks. You'd define how raw sensor and telemetry data becomes clean, labeled datasets for perception and foundation models, on a greenfield platform. The team is small and comes from leading space and defense-tech companies.
They're hiring 2 senior data platform engineers.
What you'll own
The data platform, from ingestion to labeled datasets, built from scratch
Backfill and reprocessing frameworks, data-quality metrics and alerting
Time sync, lineage and geospatial context for sensor data
Tooling for labeling and dataset creation
Must-haves
You've architected a high-throughput data pipeline or platform from a blank page, not only run an existing one
Python data stack (PyArrow, Polars, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy) plus Go, Rust or TypeScript
Deploying pipelines on a cloud platform (AWS preferred)
5+ years of experience (roughly 5–8; startup years count extra)
US citizenship (required because of the defense work)
Bonus points
Sensor, audio, video or telemetry data
A labeling tool you built
Robotics, autonomy or space data platforms
What's in it for you
$200k–$240k base + 0.25–0.5% equity
A greenfield platform that feeds directly into the company's models
Good to know
Full-time, remote in the US; Los Angeles is strongly preferred, with occasional visits to the office in the LA area
Process: 30-minute screen with the talent lead technical interview with the CTO (system design at block-diagram level, conversational, no coding pad) on-site in the LA area offer
When you apply, please include
Your CV (PDF), your LinkedIn URL, and GitHub if you have one
The data platform you stood up from scratch: volumes, latency and lineage
Where you're based, and whether occasional visits to the LA area work for you
Confirmation that you're a US citizen, and how soon you could start
Your base salary expectation, your notice period, and any other interview processes you're in
Does this sound like you? Apply now. If you're a match, we'll be in touch within 3 working days.