Data Engineering Intern - Cloud Data Pipelines

Kodiak; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 41,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Medical benefits (health/dental/vision

Dog-friendly office

Free catered lunch

Beautiful facility in Mountain View

Job summary

Kodiak Robotics, Inc. invites applications for a Data Engineering Intern in Mountain View, CA. The role focuses on optimizing data stores, building scalable data pipelines, and evaluating BI/dashboarding tools to surface insights for autonomous robotics projects.

The internship emphasizes hands-on learning, collaboration, and applying data engineering skills to real-world robotics datasets with a focus on safety and reliability.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Statistics, or a related quantitative technical field.
• Strong working knowledge of relational and/or object database design, query optimization, and schema management.
• Experience or strong familiarity with cloud-based data platforms such as AWS Aurora DB and ElasticSearch, and building associated ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Familiarity with BI tools, dashboarding frameworks, or automated reporting factories (e.g., AWS QuickSight, Kibana, or custom visualization frameworks).
• Thinking with a safety mindset and an interest in autonomous systems or robotics.
• Ability to take ownership and enjoy working collaboratively to deliver dependable data solutions.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and modern software development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Optimize and maintain AuroraDB, ElasticSearch, and other data stores to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance for critical robotics and safety datasets.
• Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines to facilitate the continuous development of our data platform, ensuring data cleanliness, reliability, and efficient ingestion.
• Explore, evaluate, and scale QuickSight and modular dashboarding frameworks/factories to streamline reporting and surface actionable insights across the organization.

Skills

SQL

Data pipelines

Cloud experience

Git

Education

CS/CE/Data Eng degree

Tools

AWS Aurora DB

ElasticSearch

QuickSight

Kibana

Job description

Kodiak Robotics, Inc. invites applications for a Data Engineering Intern in Mountain View, CA. The role focuses on optimizing data stores, building scalable data pipelines, and evaluating BI/dashboarding tools to surface insights for autonomous robotics projects.

The internship emphasizes hands-on learning, collaboration, and applying data engineering skills to real-world robotics datasets with a focus on safety and reliability.