Data Engineer - INSIGHTS (Robotics)

Location: Lokeren, Belgium; satellite office in Berchem (Antwerp).

Company

hirify.global designs and manufactures robotic systems for intralogistics, combining in-house engineering with operational warehouse technology.

What you will do

• Build ingestion and processing pipelines from operational databases, APIs, event streams, warehouse software, and robotic equipment.
• Design reliable handling for event time, duplicates, late or missing events, idempotency, reconciliation, replay, and raw evidence preservation.
• Model and transform data into versioned, tested datasets and implement INSIGHTS metric logic.
• Make data quality, completeness, pipeline health, and known limitations observable.
• Package and deploy the data chain on on-premise infrastructure and contribute to upgrades, recovery, security, configuration, and cloud connectivity.
• Investigate discrepancies with domain experts and support customer pilots through explainable results.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, data-platform engineering, or backend software engineering with substantial data responsibilities.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, sound data modelling, and disciplined use of Git, tests, and CI/CD.
• Practical experience with event-driven or distributed data systems and operating pipelines beyond development environments.
• Comfort with Linux, containers, logs, networking, and diagnosing missing or unreliable data.
• Ability to understand physical processes, learn unfamiliar domains, and turn ambiguous operational behaviour into explicit engineering rules.
• Curious, inventive, pragmatic, and willing to challenge designs, run experiments, learn new technologies, and finish the job.
• Fluent professional English required.

Nice to have

• Experience with industrial, IoT, edge, or on-premise systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on environment with innovative projects in a growing intralogistics and robotics field.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Company car with fuel card or charging pass, group and health insurance, meal vouchers, net allowances, and CAO90 bonus.
• Laptop, iPhone with subscription, freshly cooked lunches, and an international working environment.
• 20 vacation days plus 12 additional days for a full year on a 40-hour workweek instead of 38 hours, for 32 days total.