Senior Data Engineer: Computer Vision Pipelines Lead

Wi-Tronix; Bolingbrook (IL); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Wi-Tronix is hiring a Senior Data Engineer in Bolingbrook, IL to architect and scale data pipelines for products, analytics, and computer vision workloads. You will own ingestion, processing, labeling, and production-ready data standards, guiding teams and aligning pipeline design with model performance.

The role emphasizes mentorship, end-to-end ownership, and collaboration with AI and product teams to drive rail safety innovations using real-world data at scale.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years building and scaling production-grade data pipelines end-to-end.
• Hands-on experience with computer vision data and workflows incl. image/video ingestion and labeling.
• Strong programming in Python and SQL (C# a plus).
• Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS S3, Glue).
• Proven data ingestion, transformation, and validation at scale.
• Comfort with APIs, containerized services, and system integration.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale reliable data pipelines and datasets with end-to-end ownership.
• Design scalable ingestion, processing, and labeling pipelines for time-series, image, and video data.
• Lead automation of data collection, labeling, and delivery workflows to accelerate model development.
• Own data quality validation, observability, and production-ready standards for CV/ML data.
• Maintain dataset versioning, lineage, and reproducibility across training/testing datasets.
• Collaborate with engineering, AI, and product teams to align pipeline decisions with model performance.
• Contribute to deep learning model implementations and production workflows, including CV model integration and CI/CD.
• Mentor data engineers and raise engineering bar.

Skills

Python

SQL

Agile

Mentoring

Systems thinking

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS S3

AWS Glue

APIs

Docker

Job description

Wi-Tronix is hiring a Senior Data Engineer in Bolingbrook, IL to architect and scale data pipelines for products, analytics, and computer vision workloads. You will own ingestion, processing, labeling, and production-ready data standards, guiding teams and aligning pipeline design with model performance.

The role emphasizes mentorship, end-to-end ownership, and collaboration with AI and product teams to drive rail safety innovations using real-world data at scale.