Neros
Senior Data Platform Engineer
$164K–$228K
Torrance, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; must include ownership of at least one system end to end from initial design through ongoing operation.
About the job
Own and build Neros’s end-to-end autonomy data platform, from recovering field flight data to cataloging, querying, replaying, and creating reproducible datasets.
What you'll do
- Build reliable flight-data capture and transfer, and decode, align, validate, and quarantine incoming data.
- Design and operate cloud storage, databases, catalogs, and query infrastructure for searchable, playable flight data.
- Serve reproducible data to evaluation and machine-learning workflows, including versioned datasets with lineage.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building production data or backend infrastructure, including ownership of at least one system from design through operation.
- Direct experience with large-scale log or sensor data, including video and synchronized sensor streams.
- Strong Python, SQL, and production ownership of a relational database.
- Experience with cloud storage and compute, distributed or parallel batch processing and orchestration, and time synchronization and reproducible processing.
Nice to have
- Data infrastructure for robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or defense; or video processing and playback at scale.
- Azure, Terraform or Bicep, cloud-budget responsibility, export-controlled or regulated environments, or connections to labeling and model-training workflows.
Pay
$163,500 – $228,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, Azure, AWS, GCP, Spark, Ray
AI focus
Build data infrastructure that supports autonomy evaluation and machine-learning datasets, including reproducible training data; no AI model development is specified.
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