What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer position at Powerus?
About Powerus
Powerus is building a next-generation American autonomous systems platform designed to move, protect, and sustain critical assets in high-consequence environments. The company combines advanced autonomy, manufacturing capability, operational expertise, and strategic acquisitions to support defense, national security, critical infrastructure, and commercial operations globally.
Mission
Our mission is to deliver resilient autonomous technologies that strengthen national security, improve operational safety, and expand the capabilities of organizations operating in complex environments.
Why Join Powerus
Powerus generates flight logs, telemetry, imagery, and production test records every day across test sites, customers, and the Rock Hill production line. Engineering, quality, and machine learning teams depend on that data being collected, organized, and searchable.
This role builds the pipelines and data stores that collect flight, test, and production data and make it available for analysis.
Position Overview
Powerus is seeking a Data Engineer to build pipelines and data platforms for flight, test, and manufacturing data.
Key Responsibilities
- Build ingestion pipelines for flight logs, telemetry, imagery, and production test results
- Design data models and storage for time-series and file-based data
- Implement data quality checks, lineage, and retention
- Build tools that let engineers search and retrieve flights, test runs, and units
- Provide datasets to machine learning, reliability, and quality engineering
- Maintain access controls for export-controlled data
Qualifications
- Must be located in the United States, within commuting distance of Rock Hill, SC
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Professional experience building data pipelines in Python and SQL
- Experience with relational and time-series databases
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster
- Experience with cloud object storage and containers
- U.S. Person status required (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)); this role involves access to ITAR- and EAR-controlled technical data
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Spark, Parquet, or columnar data formats
- Experience with telemetry or sensor data
- Experience with manufacturing or test data
- Experience with AWS GovCloud or Azure Government
- Active or prior U.S. security clearance
What We Look For
Candidates should have built a pipeline that other teams relied on and be able to describe how they detected and handled bad data.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Powerus is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and mission-driven workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.