Remote Data Pipeline Engineer for Autonomous Flight

Merlin; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Unlimited vacation

401k with match

Job summary

Merlin Labs seeks a data engineer to own ingestion pipelines for flight test, simulation, and operations data, ensuring accurate formatting, time alignment, and quality validation. You will curate datasets with full lineage and versioning, and build automated mining for anomalies to keep the training loop efficient.

You will instrument deployed-system data flow, support logging needs with Flight Test & Operations, and monitor pipeline health while collaborating with cross-functional teams at our

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Computer Engineering or Applied Math
• 3+ years in data engineering with production ownership of pipelines feeding ML training
• Strong Python and SQL; solid data modeling, storage formats and processing frameworks
• Experience with dataset versioning and lineage tooling
• Comfort with high-volume time-series and multimodal sensor data (telemetry, video, audio, logs)
• Care about correctness; a data bug can drive model behavior unexpectedness

Responsibilities

• Build and operate ingestion pipelines for flight test, simulation and operational data with format normalization and time alignment
• Implement dataset curation and versioning with full lineage
• Develop automated mining and triage for anomalies and near-boundary events to prioritize signal over volume
• Own labeling workflows and tooling, including quality control and inter-annotator agreement
• Close the loop by instrumenting deployed-system behavior so data reaches the next training cycle
• Collaborate with Flight Test & Operations on logging requirements and resolve access constraints
• Monitor pipeline health and dataset coverage; alert on drift and gaps

Skills

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Processing frameworks

Dataset versioning

Time-series data

Multimodal data

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Math

Tools

Airflow

Spark

Pandas

Git

Job description

Merlin Labs seeks a data engineer to own ingestion pipelines for flight test, simulation, and operations data, ensuring accurate formatting, time alignment, and quality validation. You will curate datasets with full lineage and versioning, and build automated mining for anomalies to keep the training loop efficient.

You will instrument deployed-system data flow, support logging needs with Flight Test & Operations, and monitor pipeline health while collaborating with cross-functional teams at our