Data Engineer - Hardware & Consumer Devices Infrastructure

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

the company in San Francisco is building AI-powered consumer devices and seeks a Data Engineer to design, build, and scale the data infrastructure powering hardware development and operations.

You'll tackle complex data sources, evolve requirements, and create durable foundations enabling multiple teams and use cases across manufacturing, quality, and product performance, with significant ownership of technical decisions.

Qualifications

• Exceptional Data Engineering fundamentals and a track record of designing, building, and operating complex data systems.
• Strong technical judgment around data architecture, distributed systems, data modeling, reliability, and scalability.
• Experience developing production-grade pipelines and infrastructure across heterogeneous data sources.

Responsibilities

• Build foundational data infrastructure, pipelines, platforms, and datasets that support hardware development, manufacturing, customer operations, and device performance.
• Connect manufacturing systems, factory operations, device telemetry, quality assurance, and customer-facing operational systems.
• Establish durable data models and architectures enabling cross-team measurement, investigation, and decision-making.
• Enable manufacturing and quality intelligence by linking production history with downstream product performance, reliability, returns, and failure signals.
• Prepare for scale by designing systems that evolve from early development to large-scale deployment.
• Partner with hardware, software, manufacturing, operations, and Data Scientists to translate requirements into robust solutions.
• Shape engineering standards, architectural principles, data quality practices, and infrastructure decisions for the organization.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Reliability & scalability

Job description

the company in San Francisco is building AI-powered consumer devices and seeks a Data Engineer to design, build, and scale the data infrastructure powering hardware development and operations.

You'll tackle complex data sources, evolve requirements, and create durable foundations enabling multiple teams and use cases across manufacturing, quality, and product performance, with significant ownership of technical decisions.