Data Engineer for Space Ops — ELT Pipelines & AI

Doist; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Flexible PTO + 12 holidays

Company-paid Medical, Dental, Vision

Job summary

Varda Space Industries, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer to join our El Segundo headquarters team. You will build and maintain ELT pipelines feeding ERP, CRM, PLM, and QMS data, while advancing data storage, quality, and governance across a growing data ecosystem.

You will collaborate with enterprise teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions, supporting FDA GMP/ITAR/DCAA compliance and modern CI/CD practices, including automated deployments and AI-assisted tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Assist in building and maintaining ELT pipelines that ingest data from ERP, CRM, PLM, QMS, and other enterprise systems.
• Support enterprise data platform and enterprise application evaluations by researching external solutions and documenting findings.
• Assist with data storage tasks, including table format standards, partitioning strategies, and interoperability across the tool ecosystem.
• Establish data quality frameworks, lineage tracking, and pipeline observability, including SLA monitoring, proactive alerting, and production-grade logging.
• Support AI/ML workflows by designing feature pipelines, clean data products, and a governed knowledge layer that keeps data semantically aligned for reliable model and agent consumption.
• Work with application engineers and functional stakeholders to help translate requirements and business logic into technical specifications and data solutions.
• Operate effectively within regulated environments where your pipelines will be subject to compliance and auditability requirements enforced by FDA GMP, ITAR, and DCAA.
• Implement and enforce modern development practices, including source control, peer review, CI/CD pipelines, and automated build/test/deploy workflows (ex, GitHub Actions).
• Leverage AI-assisted development tooling to accelerate delivery and improve personal productivity.
• Learn and apply layered data architecture patterns to organize data assets for reliability and reuse.

Skills

SQL

Python

Git

CI/CD

Data quality testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related fields

Tools

dbt

Cloud data warehouse

Relational & NoSQL databases

Job description

Varda Space Industries, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer to join our El Segundo headquarters team. You will build and maintain ELT pipelines feeding ERP, CRM, PLM, and QMS data, while advancing data storage, quality, and governance across a growing data ecosystem.

You will collaborate with enterprise teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions, supporting FDA GMP/ITAR/DCAA compliance and modern CI/CD practices, including automated deployments and AI-assisted tooling.