Senior Data Engineer (AV) Hybrid - Full Time - Technology United Arab Emirates

InDrive Group; Asia; On-site; PEN 112,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

InDrive Group is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and scale data pipelines for autonomous driving research in the UAE. You will own sensor data storage, validation, and data delivery to ML teams, starting with imagery and GPS tracks and expanding to full sensor platforms.

You will collaborate on geodata pipelines, leverage BigQuery, and keep PostGIS/GeoParquet datasets fast for large-scale analysis. Strong Python/SQL and cloud skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in data engineering.
• Experience with multi-sensor data from vehicles or robots: cameras, IMU or LiDAR, and keeping streams in sync.
• Experience preparing training datasets for computer vision or autonomous-driving models.
• Large volumes of binary or media data in object storage (S3 or GCS); distributed processing (Spark or equivalent).
• Hands-on experience with spatial data: PostGIS, GeoPandas/Shapely, coordinate reference systems, GPS tracks.
• Strong Python and SQL; AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Build the pipelines that move multi-sensor data from vehicles into cloud storage, synchronize and geo-reference streams.
• Own the storage layout and lifecycle for sensor data: partitioning, hot and archival tiers, cost control as volume grows.
• Build validation and monitoring on the ingest path: incomplete uploads, missing or unsynchronized streams, vehicles that stopped producing usable data.
• Prepare training datasets for autonomous-driving models: select data by location, route, and conditions, version datasets, and deliver them in the formats ML teams need.
• Develop current imagery and GPS-track pipelines from vehicle cameras, and contribute to geodata pipelines (ingestion, conflation, validation, publication).
• Work with company data in BigQuery and keep spatial queries fast on large PostGIS and GeoParquet tables.

Skills

Data engineering

Multi-sensor pipelines

Python

SQL

GCP/AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

PostGIS/Geo data

BigQuery

Spatial data concepts

Tools

Databricks

BigQuery

S3/GCS

Job description

Senior Data Engineer (AV)

Department: Geo Cluster

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: United Arab Emirates

Description

About the role
We are preparing the data foundation for our autonomous-driving work, and we are hiring the engineer who will start it. Today we collect street-level imagery and GPS tracks from vehicle cameras, including our own camera units with NVIDIA edge devices on board, and use them to update maps. Next comes a dedicated survey vehicle with a full sensor set: multi-camera, IMU, LiDAR. You will start with the imagery and map data pipelines we run today, and as the sensor platform arrives, you will build the pipelines that turn its data into training datasets for autonomous-driving models.

Key Responsibilities

• Build the pipelines that move multi-sensor data (multi-camera video, IMU, LiDAR, GPS) from vehicles into cloud storage, synchronize and geo-reference the streams
• Own the storage layout and lifecycle for sensor data: partitioning, hot and archival tiers, cost control as volume grows
• Build validation and monitoring on the ingest path: incomplete uploads, missing or unsynchronized streams, vehicles that stopped producing usable data
• Prepare training datasets for autonomous-driving models: select data by location, route, and conditions, version datasets, and deliver them in the formats ML teams need
• Until then: take over and develop the current imagery and GPS-track pipelines from vehicle cameras, and contribute to geodata pipelines (ingestion from company data, OpenStreetMap, Overture Maps and vendors, conflation, validation, publication)
• Work with company data in BigQuery and keep spatial queries fast on large PostGIS and GeoParquet tables

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• 4+ years in data engineering
• Experience with multi-sensor data from vehicles or robots: cameras, IMU or LiDAR, and keeping the streams in sync
• Experience preparing training datasets for computer vision or autonomous-driving models.
• Large volumes of binary or media data in object storage (S3 or GCS); distributed processing (Spark or equivalent)
• Hands-on experience with spatial data: PostGIS, GeoPandas/Shapely, coordinate reference systems, GPS tracks
• Strong Python and SQL; AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes

Nice to have

• Sensor data formats such as ROS2 bag, MCAP or point clouds
• Parquet, Delta or Iceberg; Databricks
• Argo Workflows or Airflow
• OpenStreetMap and Overture Map
• QGIS
• BigQuery

Why join us

• Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 47 countries.
• Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs
• Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program
• Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects
• Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow
• Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs

Final benefits may vary depending on the location.