Autonomy Data Engineer: Unified Robotics Data Backbone

Askari Defense; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Askari Defense seeks a robotics data engineer to own the data foundation behind autonomy, perception, GNC, flight sciences, and test efforts. You’ll build a unified data backbone serving as the source of truth for high-rate time-series and imagery data, implementing end-to-end data lifecycle management and robust, automated pipelines.

The role emphasizes versioned data tied to configurations, cross-vehicle data synchronization, and tooling to enable engineering teams to self-serve data for

Qualifications

• Educational background in CS/Robotics or related field.
• Several years of data engineering, robotics backend experience.
• Strong Python and data ecosystem skills (Pandas/NumPy).
• Experience with large, time-series datasets from multiple sources.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end data lifecycle from logging to tooling.
• Design unified data backbone for time-series and imagery.
• Develop warehousing and storage strategies for mission data.
• Track data provenance and versioning across configurations.
• Hardening onboard C++ logging framework for efficiency and reliability.
• Build core libraries for offline data analysis and visualizations.
• Create automated validation/CI/CD pipelines for data workflows.
• Mature tooling into a reusable suite for engineers.

Skills

Python (Pandas NumPy)

Time-series data

Data engineering

Travel

Education

BS in CS/Robotics or related field

Tools

Parquet

Protobuf

HDF5

ROS 2 bags

Job description

Askari Defense seeks a robotics data engineer to own the data foundation behind autonomy, perception, GNC, flight sciences, and test efforts. You’ll build a unified data backbone serving as the source of truth for high-rate time-series and imagery data, implementing end-to-end data lifecycle management and robust, automated pipelines.

The role emphasizes versioned data tied to configurations, cross-vehicle data synchronization, and tooling to enable engineering teams to self-serve data for