DataEngineer

Vulcan Elements is manufacturing American rare-earth permanent magnets for a secure, resilient future. With a focus on national security and economic resiliency, we serve critical industries such as defense, aerospace, and automotive, powering a high-technology future. Vulcan Elements is building a team of ambitious professionals committed to Mission Focus, Technical Excellence, and Transparency. As the Data Engineer, you will design and build the data infrastructure that makes Vulcan’s operational and business data useful — first at pilot scale, and then as the foundation for a 10,000 ton/year facility. You will work from architecture to implementation: evaluating and selecting platforms, designing data models and pipelines, and building the systems that collect, contextualize, and deliver data to the teams and tools that depend on it. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to translate operational requirements into a durable, scalable data architecture. As Vulcan grows, this role has the opportunity to expand into a team leadership position. Responsibilities Architecture understands the tradeoffs between platforms and can make and defend platform selection decisions Strong experience designing and building ETL/ELT pipelines that enrich and contextualize data Deep fluency with data modeling for both operational and analytical workloads; can design schemas that serve present needs without foreclosing future ones Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or similar); writes and debugs SQL confidently Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with a small team, making decisions with incomplete information and documenting them clearly for future colleagues Strong communicator who can work across technical and non-technical stakeholders and translate between operational requirements and data architecture decisions Must be a U. S. Person due to required access to U. S. export-controlled information or facilities Desired