Senior Data Engineer

May Mobility is transforming cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, more accessible world. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May develops and deploys autonomous vehicles (AVs) powered by our innovative Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) technology that literally reimagines the way AVs think. 

Our vehicles do more than just drive themselves - they provide value to communities, bridge public transit gaps and move people where they need to go safely, easily and with a lot more fun. We’re building the world’s best autonomy system to reimagine transit by minimizing congestion, expanding access and encouraging better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant and livable spaces. Since our founding in 2017, we’ve given more than 300,000 autonomy-enabled rides to real people around the globe. And we’re just getting started. We’re hiring people who share our passion for building the future, today, solving real-world problems and seeing the impact of their work. Join us.

Autonomy Data at May

May’s fleet of vehicles generate terabytes of data per vehicle per day, streamed during operations and offloaded during downtime. The Autonomy Data department has two primary responsibilities: defining and curating metrics for engineering and business stakeholders, and providing the infrastructure necessary to ingest, transform, store, and provide access to the datasets necessary to compute those metrics.

We are looking for a detail and results-oriented senior engineer to join our team that provides data infrastructure throughout our engineering and operations orgs. We envision a performant and commercially scalable data platform that enables data scientists, robotics engineers, and non-technical users to make data-driven decisions about what problems to solve next and measure their impact. 

Build new data pipelines starting from the vehicle, reduce the time it takes to get impactful metrics, create automated infrastructure to accelerate engineers on their path to creating new metrics, create infrastructure to observer and measure the data flowing through our pipelines, reduce unit per vehicle necessary to operate a site, create web interfaces (UIs and APIs) to provide stakeholders with methods to access and explore our data. These are the kinds of problems you would be solving as part of our team.

Experience with robotics, automotive engineering, or the autonomous vehicles industry is not required! We value engineers from a diverse set of industry backgrounds, and your ability to solve difficult problems in a timely manner is what we’re after.

Your Opportunities to Drive Success

• Realize our vision of a performant and commercially scalable data platform
• Build state-of-art data distribution, storage, and analysis platforms powering experiences for internal and external customers
• Participate in design, management, and scaling of our real-time and historical data pipelines, and its underlying infrastructure, to enable our fleet to operate and facilitate continuous development of our  system
• Design data models for optimal storage and retrieval, meeting the needs of engineering and business stakeholders
• Define, build, and expand libraries and APIs for managing, searching, and analyzing vehicle datasets with internal and external partners
• Partner with technical and non-technical roles to understand their needs and deliver impactful solutions to their problems
• Effectively work on a small, fully-empowered team with peer and junior team engineers and provide guidance and best practices

Required Qualifications:

• B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent degree and 3+ years of industry experience
• Hands-on experience with distributed technology such as Kafka, Spark, Spark Streaming, Storm, Flink, Cassandra
• Strong working knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Mastery of an object-oriented programming language, such as C++, Python, or Java
• Excellent attention to detail and rigorous testing methodology
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and team-leading abilities
• Experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers
• Ability to undergo a driving record check

Desirable Qualifications:

• M.S. Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and 5+ years of industry experience
• Experience building and managing large-scale data-processing pipelines in a cloud environment
• Experience with build and deployment tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Docker
• Experience with front-end frameworks and plotting libraries such as React and plotly
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure as code, such as kubernetes, helm, or terraform
• Working knowledge of telemetry systems and real-time data processing
• Track record of delivering impactful products and realizing a product vision

Physical Requirements

• Standard office working conditions which includes but is not limited to:
• Prolonged sitting
• Prolonged standing
• Prolonged computer use
• Lift up to 50 pounds

• Hybrid role based out of Ann Arbor, MI.
• Hybrid employees work remotely from their home or alternative work space as well as from one of our offices or sites at an agreed upon cadence set by their leader and based on the nature of their role. _ number of days per week/month or as otherwise agreed to with manager (job function- job dependent) 2 to 3 days per week or 8 days per month in office.  Weekly 1-4 days per week 
• Travel requirements - less than 10%

Salary Range$167,000—$190,000 USD

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive healthcare suite including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans. Domestic partners who have been residing together at least one year are also eligible to participate! 
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Healthcare and Dependent Care Accounts available.
• Rich retirement benefits, including an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.
• Generous paid parental leave with immediate eligibility as well as a phased return to work. 
• Flexible vacation policy in addition to 18 paid company holidays.
• Total Wellness Program providing numerous resources for overall wellbeing   

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and/or people of color are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every qualification. At May Mobility, we’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workforce, so if you’re excited about this role but your previous experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway! You may be the perfect candidate for this or another role at May.

Want to learn more about our culture & benefits? Check out our website!

May Mobility is an equal opportunity employer.  All applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetics or any other legally protected basis.   Below, you have the opportunity to share your preferred gender pronouns, gender, ethnicity, and veteran status with May Mobility to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring and recruitment processes. Completion of these questions is entirely voluntary.  Any information you choose to provide will be kept confidential, and will not impact the hiring decision in any way. If you believe that you will need any type of accommodation, please let us know.

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