Senior Data Engineer (Automotive)

Location: Belgrade, Serbia; permanent position

Company

hirify.global develops mmWave radar sensors, perception solutions, and full-stack embedded systems for autonomous systems.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end data architecture for autonomous systems, from edge sensor capture through cloud ingestion, processing, storage, simulation, and model training.
• Define data contracts, schemas, storage strategies, retention policies, and cost-optimization approaches for vehicle and fleet-scale data.
• Design and maintain AWS pipelines for ingesting, processing, indexing, searching, and retrieving multimodal sensor data.
• Develop logging formats and metadata or scenario indexes, while ensuring temporal synchronization, lineage, quality, and observability.
• Partner with AI, Simulation, and Autonomy teams on log-to-replay capabilities for virtual testing, regression validation, and model training.
• Document architectural decisions and mentor engineers on data engineering practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of data engineering experience, including data architecture or technical workstream leadership.
• Deep experience with AWS services including S3, IAM, Lambda, Glue, and Athena.
• Track record building ETL pipelines for unstructured or binary data at scale.
• Strong Python skills and experience with Protobuf, FlatBuffers, or similar serialization formats.
• Understanding of edge-to-cloud communication, bandwidth-constrained uploads, buffering, prioritized data selection, and Linux environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with robotics or automotive sensor data, including ROS2, rosbag2, or MCAP.
• Experience with Foxglove or similar visualization and debugging tools.
• Knowledge of time-series databases and data versioning tools such as DVC or LakeFS.
• AWS or other cloud certifications.
• Experience with data governance or safety-relevant data.

Culture & Benefits

• Ownership of real projects with technical responsibility and autonomy.
• Opportunity to build products and technologies from the ground up.
• Support for professional growth and increased responsibility.
• Collaborative environment where ideas and initiative are encouraged.
• Competitive compensation package with private health insurance.
• Flexible working hours and a relaxed working environment.