Staff Engineer – Data Analysis for V‑BAT Fleet

About the role

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to lead V‑BAT’s fleet data analysis efforts. The role will own analysis pipelines, tooling, standards, and metrics that turn rich flight‑test, simulation, and production data into actionable engineering insight.

Key responsibilities

• Define and execute the technical strategy for fleet‑wide data analysis across fielded aircraft, flight test, simulation, production, and quality workflows.
• Build and maintain pipelines that convert raw flight, simulation, and fleet data into reliable engineering metrics, reports, and analysis products.
• Conduct studies to identify trends in hardware quality, system performance, reliability, and operational behavior.
• Standardize analysis methods using online tools, Jupyter notebooks, automated Python scripts, and legacy Matlab workflows.
• Partner with DevOps to deploy and scale infrastructure for automated analysis pipelines and dashboards.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field.
• Strong Python programming skills and experience building data analysis tools or pipelines.
• Experience working with large, messy datasets from deployed aerospace or similar complex systems.
• Ability to translate ambiguous engineering questions into structured analysis and clear recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills to influence cross‑functional teams.

Required skills

• Python
• Jupyter notebooks
• Matlab
• Databases and cloud storage
• Data lake and time‑series database architectures
• Telemetry systems and data cataloging