Data Loop Pipeline Engineer

Location: Hybrid role based on-site at Merlin HQ in Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Salary: $125,000–$220,000 base salary per year

Company

hirify.global is a publicly traded aerospace and defense company developing a non-human pilot and full-stack autonomy systems for aircraft.

What you will do

• Build and operate ingestion pipelines for flight-test, simulation, and operational data, including normalization, time alignment, and quality validation.
• Implement dataset curation, versioning, lineage, and provenance tracking across tools and processing stages.
• Develop automated mining and triage for anomalies, system disagreements, and near-boundary events.
• Own labeling workflows, quality control, and inter-annotator agreement tooling.
• Instrument deployed systems so operational data feeds the next machine-learning training cycle.
• Monitor pipeline health and dataset coverage while collaborating with Flight Test and Operations on logging and data-access requirements.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• 3+ years of data engineering experience with production ownership of pipelines feeding machine-learning training.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with knowledge of data modeling, storage formats, and processing frameworks.
• Experience with dataset versioning and lineage tooling.
• Experience with high-volume time-series and multimodal sensor data, including telemetry, video, audio, and structured logs.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship or visa transfer, now or in the future.

Nice to have

• Robotics, autonomous-vehicle, or aerospace data experience.
• Familiarity with flight-data formats and avionics bus data.
• Experience building internal engineering tools.
• Data governance or provenance experience in a regulated environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial, innovative, and team-focused startup environment.
• Health, dental, and life insurance.
• Unlimited vacation and a 401(k) with company match.
• Professional development support and on-site catered meals, snacks, and beverages.
• Full-time employment with equity grants considered as part of total compensation.

Hiring process

• Employment is contingent on passing background and reference checks.
• New hires must verify identity and United States work eligibility.