Senior Data Engineer

At Aircapture were creating technology to solve what we believe to be our lifetimes most pressing challenge: the climate crisis. We supply commercial and industrial customers with clean CO₂ captured from our atmosphere to radically improve the environment our economy and our lives. We value building a team of people who represent diverse backgroundsbe it through education gender ethnicity age sexual orientationto reach our goals. Thank you for considering us.

You will shape the data foundation that runs our technology by owning the pipelines models and analyses that turn operational data from our Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems into the insights that our engineers and scientists rely upon. Partnering with our test and engineering teams youll turn the continuous stream of sensor process and test data from the physical equipment in the field and shop into actionable decisions. You have built and run production data systems in a hardware or physical product environment and are comfortable with the realities of real-world sensor data making durable architectural choices that hold up over time. If this sounds like you and you are excited to have a major impact at a groundbreaking climate technology startup we want to hear from you!

This role is onsite at our development and production facility in Berkeley California.

Salary: $180000-$220000 per year

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What Youll Do Here

• Own and evolve Aircaptures end-to-end data platform using both Ignition and AWS
• Set technical direction for the data stack evaluating tools defining standards and making durable architectural decisions
• Standardize and enforce engineering workflows across the data stack such as version control code review CI/CD testing and documentation
• Maintain and support on-prem server systems as part of the data infrastructure
• Partner closely with controls engineering on Ignition rollout
• Partner with test engineering to build the pipeline that moves test and operational telemetry including sensor DAQ and historian data into the dashboards and reports engineering relies on

Your Skills and Experience Include

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science or a related field or equivalent hands-on industry experience Masters preferred
• 6 years building and operating production data systems that are mission critical to a hardware or physical product gained in an industry such as automotive aerospace robotics industrial equipment energy or semiconductor manufacturing. Hands-on hardware/physical-product experience required
• Solid experience with AWS and services such as RDS IAM VPC S3
• Strong SQL and Python expertise combined with solid engineering fundamentals across Git CI/CD and production workflows
• Thorough background in dbt across the full model lifecycle plus orchestration tools like Airflow and Docker for production deployment
• Hands-on experience with industrial historian or DAQ platforms such as Ignition ibaPDA Keysight National Instruments or similar as well as fluency working with time-series and sensor data
• Working physical intuition for the systems generating your data thermal fluid electrical or mechanical sufficient to sanity-check sensor readings spot anomalies and communicate credibly with test and controls engineers
• Strong analytical orientation toward data interpretation with the ability to navigate ambiguity and adjust architectural decisions accordingly
• Effective cross-functional collaborator and communicator; able to translate ambiguity into scoped work and push back when needed
• Self-directed resourceful and highly ownership-oriented from scoping through delivery
• Bonus: BI tooling experience climate/energy domain background or prior experience partnering directly with a test or reliability engineering function

Aircapture strives to create a safe inclusive equitable and diverse workplace. Every teammate adds to who we are diversifying our ideas experiences and viewpoints and making us stronger. We hope you feel welcome here.