Senior Data Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Hybrid in New York, NY or San Francisco, CA; applicants in other locations, especially near an office, may also be considered.

Company

hirify.global deploys autonomous AI systems on heavy construction equipment to improve job-site safety and accelerate critical infrastructure projects.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ingestion workflows across the data lake.
• Define and enforce data quality standards, SLOs, validation frameworks, anomaly detection, and lineage tracking.
• Optimize pipelines, queries, data modeling, partitioning, and compute resource utilization for performance and cost efficiency.
• Expand monitoring and alerting coverage and support incident response for data pipelines.
• Enable internal stakeholders to self-serve through documentation, tooling, and hands-on support.
• Contribute to autonomous systems operating heavy construction equipment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, including large-scale data lake or data warehouse environments.
• 5+ years of experience with SQL and distributed query engines such as Spark, BigQuery, or Snowflake.
• Deep proficiency with pipeline orchestration tools such as Airflow or Prefect and transformation frameworks such as Spark.
• Experience designing data quality frameworks and using observability tooling for monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Experience enabling non-engineering stakeholders to use data infrastructure independently.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Databricks and Spark.
• Experience with streaming or near-real-time ingestion patterns.
• Familiarity with data governance and access control at scale.
• Experience with customer-facing data products or external SLAs.

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside construction specialists and engineers on physical-world AI problems.
• Flexible roles and consideration for candidates who do not meet every listed criterion.
• Inclusive workplace with equal employment opportunity.
• Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the hiring process.