Data Engineer ADAS Fleet Analytics
About The Position
At Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America (MBRDNA), we are committed to delivering world-class automotive technologies that push the boundaries of what is possible. Our teams of highly skilled engineers and designers use cutting-edge software and technology, to enhance the driving experience and reduce environmental impact. Mercedes-Benz uses large-scale vehicle telemetry to evaluate, monitor, and improve its Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. As a Data Engineer on the US ADAS Data & Forensics team, you will build and operate the data pipelines that turn raw vehicle signals into trusted KPIs, fleet dashboards, and campaign-health monitoring for management and the engineers who calibrate ADAS functions. You will own the full data lifecycle, including real-time ingestion, binary protocol decoding, Bronze/Silver/Gold processing with PySpark and Delta Lake, and delivery through APIs and dashboards. You will also manage data campaigns end to end, including VIN enrollment, fleet-health tracking, coverage-gap detection, and the Sold to Consented to Capable to Active vehicle funnel. The architecture is evolving toward applied AI, and you will build the data infrastructure required for vision-language models, LLM-based event classification, embedding retrieval, and model-based event scoring.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field. Equivalent experience may be considered.
- 2-5 years of experience in data engineering or big-data analytics with production pipeline ownership.
- Strong Python, PySpark DataFrame API and performance-tuning skills, and SQL skills including window functions and aggregations.
- Experience with a columnar or transactional data-lake technology such as Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi, or managed Parquet.
- Experience with automated testing for data pipelines and Git-based development workflows.
- Ability to diagnose production failures, including schema conflicts, data skew, and memory issues, and communicate trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice To Haves
- Medallion or other layered data-processing patterns.
- Cloud data-platform experience in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Parquet schema design and schema evolution.
- Production data-quality practices, including deduplication, idempotency, and data contracts.
- Time-series, IoT, or vehicle-telemetry data.
- DuckDB or PyArrow; FastAPI or analytical API delivery; blue/green data deployments.
- ML data infrastructure, including feature stores, embedding pipelines, vector databases, or video pipelines.
- Fleet or campaign management for vehicle or IoT programs.
- Automotive data privacy, including CCPA; ADAS or connected-vehicle domain knowledge.
- Azure Data Engineer or Databricks certification.
- English required; German is an advantage.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable telemetry pipelines using Event Hub, Medallion architecture, Delta Lake MERGE, schema evolution, and blue/green data deployments.
- Own campaign and fleet management, including enrollment rosters, ingestion-completeness monitoring, VIN reconciliation, and automated coverage alerts.
- Develop fleet KPIs for engineering, including safety events and takeover analysis; operations, including data freshness and pipeline health; and management, including trends and cohort comparisons.
- Build ML-ready data infrastructure, including video and signal pipelines for SSR recordings, embedding stores, feature-engineering layers, and model-output integration into Gold.
- Operate the Azure data platform, including ADLS Gen2, Synapse Spark, Event Hub, and Container Apps, and support Terraform-managed infrastructure and CI/CD.
- Write automated tests, maintain documentation alongside code, and participate in code reviews and incident response.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families
- 401(k) with employer match
- Up to 15 company-paid holidays
- Paid time off (flexible time off for salaried employees), sick time, and parental leave
- Tuition assistance program
- Wellness/Fitness reimbursement programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
