Senior Data Engineer

Aircapture • Berkeley, CA

13d • $180,000 - $220,000 • Onsite

About The Position

At Aircapture, we are developing technology to address the climate crisis by capturing CO₂ from the atmosphere and supplying it to commercial and industrial customers. We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to shape our data foundation. This role involves owning the pipelines, models, and analyses that transform operational data from our Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems into actionable insights for our engineers and scientists. You will partner with test and engineering teams to convert a continuous stream of sensor, process, and test data into informed decisions. The ideal candidate has experience building and managing production data systems in a hardware or physical product environment, is comfortable with real-world sensor data, and can make durable architectural choices. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact at a climate technology startup.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on industry experience, Master’s preferred
• 6+ years building and operating production data systems that are mission critical to a hardware or physical product, gained in an industry such as automotive, aerospace, robotics, industrial equipment, energy, or semiconductor manufacturing. Hands-on hardware/physical-product experience required
• Solid experience with AWS and services such as RDS, IAM, VPC, S3
• Strong SQL and Python expertise combined with solid engineering fundamentals across Git, CI/CD, and production workflows
• Thorough background in dbt across the full model lifecycle, plus orchestration tools like Airflow and Docker for production deployment
• Hands-on experience with industrial historian or DAQ platforms such as Ignition, ibaPDA, Keysight, National Instruments, or similar, as well as fluency working with time-series and sensor data
• Working physical intuition for the systems generating your data — thermal, fluid, electrical, or mechanical — sufficient to sanity-check sensor readings, spot anomalies, and communicate credibly with test and controls engineers
• Strong analytical orientation toward data interpretation, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and adjust architectural decisions accordingly
• Effective cross-functional collaborator and communicator; able to translate ambiguity into scoped work and push back when needed
• Self-directed, resourceful, and highly ownership-oriented from scoping through delivery

Nice To Haves

• BI tooling experience
• climate/energy domain background
• prior experience partnering directly with a test or reliability engineering function

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Aircapture’s end-to-end data platform, using both Ignition and AWS
• Set technical direction for the data stack, evaluating tools, defining standards, and making durable architectural decisions
• Standardize and enforce engineering workflows across the data stack, such as version control, code review, CI/CD, testing, and documentation
• Maintain and support on-prem server systems as part of the data infrastructure
• Partner closely with controls engineering on Ignition rollout
• Partner with test engineering to build the pipeline that moves test and operational telemetry, including sensor, DAQ, and historian data, into the dashboards and reports engineering relies on

Benefits

• We value building a team of people who represent diverse backgrounds—be it through education, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation—to reach our goals.
• Aircapture strives to create a safe, inclusive, equitable, and diverse workplace. Every teammate adds to who we are, diversifying our ideas, experiences, and viewpoints and making us stronger. We hope you feel welcome here.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree