ForwardDeployedDataEngineer

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas: * Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology * Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture * Climate Change & Managing CO₂ * Artificial Intelligence & Robotics This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas for lab to society. Explore more at [www.eit.org](https://www.eit.or) **Requirements** **Job Summary:** Our platform connects physical hardware - robotic systems, ambient sensor rigs, lab hardware - to a cloud-native data platform that captures, stores and services high-frequency multimodal data. The platform spans an edge-to-cloud telemetry stack (MQTT, Kafka, multimedia streams), REST and streaming APIs, and a growing set of hardware integrations across multiple sites. As a **Data Engineer** , you’ll work directly alongside hardware engineers, scientists, and the core platform team to build the data layer that makes our autonomous operations possible. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who is comfortable combining hardware data streams with reproducible, version-controlled, and well-structured data pipelines, and is comfortable bringing their own expertise into diverse groups. **Day-to-Day, You Might** * Integrate new lab instruments and robotic systems into the platform - writing device APIs, defining event schemas, and validating data at the edge before it reaches cloud storage. * Build and maintain high-throughput, low-latency ingestion pipelines for streaming data: live video