Data Engineer, Airships to Cloud
About the role
Data Engineer role focused on end-to-end data chain from in-field payloads to cloud processing, with responsibilities spanning data capture checks, field upload systems, pipeline ingestion, and cost/performance optimization in a hybrid hardware-software environment.
Responsibilities
- Run it. Make payloads ops-ready; define and run checks for sensor health, time synchronization, storage, configuration before missions.
- Own the field upload systems; ensure reliable, fast, foolproof data offload and successful cloud upload despite field connectivity.
- Guarantee data flows into the pipeline; monitor ingestion end-to-end and ensure flight data is complete and traceable from capture to deliverable.
- Be the go-to person when data breaks; investigate incidents across hardware, network, and software and implement root-cause fixes to prevent recurrence.
- Optimize it; right-size cloud compute and storage, reduce data transfer, automate manual steps, and build dashboards to track health and cost of the data chain.
Qualifications
- Background in embedded systems, robotics, or hardware-facing engineering, ideally on a product operated in real-world conditions.
- Embedded Linux and SBCs (Raspberry Pi or equivalent), sensors and data loggers, communication interfaces (Ethernet, UART, CAN, USB), time sync (GNSS, PTP/NTP), storage and file systems.
- Solid Python and Linux shell; C/C++ a plus.
- Languages: English required; French a plus.
- Engineering degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Track record of end-to-end ownership in operational contexts.
Skills
Benefits
- Potential to become a shareholder in HyLight
- Real ownership and direct impact from day one
- International team and offices on a former airbase with flights visible from the window
- Bi-annual offsite trips
- Public transport reimbursement or €800/year for sustainable commuting
- A bike provided for commuting
- Free lunch
- On-site sauna and gym access
About HyLight
Small unmanned hydrogen airships for long range monitoring
HyLight builds and operates autonomous airships for long range monitoring. We focus on detecting methane leaks on pipelines and defects on power lines. Our innovation, the HyLighter, is a crossover between drone and airship technology. Like a drone, it is easily controllable and transportable. And, like an airship, it is extremely energy-efficient, enabling it to fly for up to 10 hours at slow speed (22mph) for optimal data collection which represents a range of 220miles. Today, energy infrastructure operators struggle with conducting inspections that are simultaneously: massive and precise. HyLight offers a solution to precisely detect issues on the infrastructure at an industrial scale, and all of this without emitting GHGs. We are 3 co-founders experienced in hardware and energy companies with Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Business from the best Engineering and Business School in France. We have developed 5 different flying aircrafts and signed 5 pilots programs with major energy infrastructure operators. We also have LOIs worth over $3.5M.
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