Data Engineer
About this role
The Data Engineer role exists to ensure that all test‑lab data is trustworthy, accessible, scalable, and usable for engineering, validation, analytics, and decision‑making. The function provides the technical backbone that enables reliable testing, advanced analysis, automation, and long‑term product improvement.
The Data Engineer is responsible for designing and operating the data infrastructure that supports all laboratory test activities. This includes connecting test equipment, building pipelines for high‑frequency and large‑volume datasets, ensuring data quality, and enabling engineers, analysts, and scientists to work efficiently with accurate data.
As the laboratory and organization expand, the role will evolve into a leadership function that guides the long‑term data strategy and leads a multidisciplinary data team.
Responsibilities
- Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to)
- Design, build, and maintain data pipelines for high‑frequency lab data
- Integrate test equipment such as battery cyclers (Chroma, Keysight, PEC, PNE), chambers, DAQ systems, and PLCs
- Develop ETL/ELT processes to transform raw → validated → curated datasets
- Build scalable data storage solutions (data lakes, time-series DBs, structured metadata stores)
- Implement data validation, anomaly detection, and quality monitoring
- Automate data processing for reporting, dashboards, and analysis
- Ensure data traceability, version control, and audit compliance
- Work closely with test and validation engineers to understand test profiles, metadata, and measurement methods
- Support lab technicians with tools that simplify workflows and reduce manual data tasks
- Integrate with MES, LIMS, PLM, and other enterprise systems
- Troubleshoot data-related issues in test execution or equipment communication
- Take increasing ownership of data architecture and long‑term data roadmap
- Contribute to documentation standards, data governance, an