Data Engineer - Databricks, IoT & AI Data Pipelines

SightPlan; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Flexible PTO

401(k) with employer contributions

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

SmartRent is seeking a Data Engineer to build and optimize data pipelines that transform device telemetry and operational data into trusted assets. You will collaborate with Data Science, Product, and DevOps to mature our Databricks Lakehouse for data-driven insights across the organization.

You will report to the Director of Data Engineering and contribute to governance, data quality, and scalable data models to support ML/AI workloads and analytics for rental housing platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years in data engineering, including production work with core and emerging features in Databricks.
• Experience with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow, Lakebase, Asset Bundles.
• Experience ingesting and modeling high-volume IoT, telemetry, or event-stream data.
• Advanced Python and SQL skills.
• Familiarity with CSV, JSON, Parquet, and Delta data formats.
• Strong communication skills to present technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines for high-volume device telemetry and operational data.
• Design curated data models across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers in Unity Catalog for data science, ML, and AI workloads.
• Deploy and promote pipelines using Databricks Asset Bundles, in partnership with DevOps.
• Contribute to platform standards for governance, cost, and performance with leadership.
• Build datasets supporting AI workloads, including unstructured data and vector/search data stores.
• Advance the data quality framework with data sensitivity classification and access controls.

Skills

Python

SQL

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

5+ years data engineering experience

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Lakeflow

Lakebase

Asset Bundles

Parquet/CSV/JSON/Delta

Git/Terraform

Job description

SmartRent is seeking a Data Engineer to build and optimize data pipelines that transform device telemetry and operational data into trusted assets. You will collaborate with Data Science, Product, and DevOps to mature our Databricks Lakehouse for data-driven insights across the organization.

You will report to the Director of Data Engineering and contribute to governance, data quality, and scalable data models to support ML/AI workloads and analytics for rental housing platforms.