[Hiring] Senior Data Engineer @Agility Robotics

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team and help shape the foundation of data-driven operations at Agility. In this role, you’ll work closely with robotics & operations teams to design, curate, and maintain high-quality datasets that enable analytics, debugging, and fleet-scale insights.

You’ll bridge the gap between raw robot data and actionable information — working both on-robot data generation and in the cloud ingestion and processing pipelines. You’ll design transformations, author pipelines, and collaborate across teams to deliver reliable and queryable data products for hardware reliability, system health, workflow metrics, and root cause analysis.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with robot software and hardware teams to define, collect, and curate data needed for analytics and debugging.
• Develop and maintain ETL pipelines that transform raw robot logs and telemetry into structured datasets using Spark, Airflow (or equivalent orchestration tools), and AWS data services.
• Own the gold-layer datasets that power fleet dashboards, reliability models, and business metrics, with defined freshness SLAs, documentation, and monitoring so analytics and data science teams can rely on them.
• Implement data quality checks, schema evolution, and metadata management practices using our internal Data Registry and cataloging systems.
• Collaborate with internal consumers — reliability, analytics, and ML teams — to design efficient data models for their workflows.
• Occasionally contribute to shared libraries or APIs in Python, Java, or C++ to support data capture and consumption.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or similar role building and maintaining production data pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Apache Spark or equivalent distributed data processing framework with complementary programming skills in Python, Java and/or Scala.
• Experience with Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or other data orchestration systems.
• Proficiency with data formats such as Avro, Parquet, and structured/numeric datasets.
• Familiarity with table formats like Iceberg, Delta Lake etc and medallion architecture.
• Solid understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, and data quality best practices.
• Good intuitions of how to model datasets logically and partition them physically for optimal query performance, both for analytical query engines and for playback or root-cause-analysis (e.g. ReRun, Foxglove etc).
• Comfort working cross-functionally with software, hardware, and analytics teams in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Familiarity with data versioning or immutable dataset design (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake).
• Experience with vision data (RGB, depth, point clouds, or perception outputs) pipelines and how to process, store, and query multimodal efficiently.
• Familiarity with C++ and willingness to contribute to lightweight logging or data serialization libraries.
• Experience with data catalog systems and metadata management.

Benefits

• 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
• Equity: Company stock options.
• Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
• Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
• Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Time Off:
  • Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
  • Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 12 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
• On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
• Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
• Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
• Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
• Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
• Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.