Data Loop Pipeline Engineer

Merlin

Remote regions

US

Salary range

$125,000–$220,000/yr

Benefits

Unlimited PTO

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**Responsibilities:**

  • Build and operate ingestion pipelines for flight test, simulation and operational data, including format normalization, time alignment across sources, and quality validation at the gate.
  • Implement dataset curation and versioning with full lineage: what went into a dataset, from where, processed how, and by which version of which tool.
  • Build automated mining and triage for the rare and interesting — anomalies, disagreements between learned and rule-based systems, near-boundary events — so the flywheel prioritizes signal over volume.

**Qualifications:**

  • Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Math, or a related subject.
  • 3+ years in data engineering, with production ownership of pipelines feeding ML training.
  • Strong Python and SQL; solid grasp of data modeling, storage formats and processing frameworks.

**Nice to Have:**

  • Robotics, autonomous vehicle or aerospace data experience.
  • Familiarity with flight data formats and avionics bus data.
  • Experience building internal tools that engineers actually chose to use.

Merlin

Merlin is a publicly traded aerospace and defense company building a non-human pilot for full-stack aircraft autonomy. Headquartered in Boston, it has flown hundreds of autonomous flights and is expanding its team to accelerate development and commercialization.

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