Data Platform Engineer, Autonomy Analytics

Job overview

The Data Platform Engineer, Autonomy Analytics role is listed as onsite in Peoria, IL. Compensation is not specified. The role supports FieldAI’s data platform and ingestion across the company. The engineer builds reusable infrastructure for collecting, integrating, and delivering robotics field data to internal teams and downstream systems. The work addresses intermittent connectivity, large sensor payloads, and edge-to-cloud synchronization while improving reliability, scalability, and cost as fleet deployments grow.

What you'll do

• Design and build data platform frameworks and developer tooling for ingestion
• handle field data challenges including intermittent connectivity, large LiDAR, camera, and IMU payloads, edge-to-cloud synchronization, and offline backfills
• develop reusable ingestion SDKs, APIs, and services
• integrate robot and edge systems, fleet management and deployment tools, simulation outputs, and cloud object storage
• connect data to BI, ML training and evaluation, labeling, and issue-tracking systems
• own schema contracts, versioning, retries, backfills, and monitoring
• optimize pipeline performance, scalability, and cost.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

data platform engineer

autonomy analytics

full-time

peoria il

data engineering

python

sql

robotics data

data ingestion

streaming systems

cloud object storage

edge-to-cloud synchronization

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a technical field and 3–5+ years of data or backend engineering experience. Python, SQL, streaming systems, orchestration tools, and modern warehouse or lakehouse experience are specified.

About the employer

FieldAI is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.