Data Engineer

Cyvl • Somerville, MA

11d • $125,000 - $195,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Every Cyvl drive captures LiDAR, imagery, and GPS data that has to become something a city engineer can trust. As a Data Engineer, you'll build and scale the pipelines and data platform behind our Infrastructure Intelligence Platform, taking raw sensor data through processing, AI inference, and QA to client-ready geospatial deliverables. Your work sets how fast we deliver, what it costs, and how much customers trust the numbers. This role is based in Somerville, MA, or remote from San Francisco, CA.

Requirements

• 3+ years building production data pipelines or data platforms
• Strong Python and SQL
• Experience with cloud data infrastructure (AWS preferred) and workflow orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar)
• Experience making large, messy datasets reliable
• Comfort owning systems end to end, from design through on-call

Nice To Haves

• Geospatial data experience (PostGIS, GDAL, GeoParquet, H3 or other spatial indexing)
• Sensor data: LiDAR point clouds, imagery, GPS/IMU
• Lakehouse formats and engines (Iceberg, Delta, DuckDB, Spark)
• Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
• Supporting ML training and inference pipelines

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate pipelines that move sensor data from ingest to client-ready geospatial outputs.
• Build and maintain our data platform so product, AI, and analytics teams can find and use data fast.
• Build automated data quality checks and monitoring that catch problems before customers do.
• Partner with Data Operations and GIS teams to automate manual workflows and increase throughput.
• Improve the cost and performance of processing at scale on AWS.

Benefits

• Equity. You'll own a piece of what you're building.
• Health, dental, and vision. Cyvl covers most of the premium for you and your family.
• 401k with a real match, vested day one.
• Generous PTO & Paid Parental leave.
• Learning stipend.
• Paid to live close. A monthly bonus for living near our Boston office.
• Team events.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed