Data Engineer - Flight Data (contract)

📋 Description

• Build and maintain the ingest and transformation pipelines that land aircraft telemetry from S3
• Design and maintain curated marts — flight runs, component flight hours, vehicle modes, battery
• Develop and operate the Python services that evaluate flight-by-flight health checks and deliver
• Own the automated quality gates — mart freshness, source-to-mart reconciliation, and watermark
• Build the dashboards and query interfaces engineering teams use to monitor the fleet, and convert
• Work directly with firmware, GNC, battery, systems engineering, flight operations, and MRO to

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or a related technical
• 3+ years of professional data engineering experience building and operating production pipelines
• Strong SQL, including window functions and query tuning on a distributed, columnar engine
• Proficient in Python for production services — not just notebooks: packaging, dependency
• Hands-on experience with the AWS data stack: S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda, SNS, CloudWatch, and IAM
• Dimensional modeling and warehouse design, including partitioning strategy for large tables

🎁 Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401k plans
• Equal Opportunity Employer