Third Wave Automation

Third Wave Automation

Sr. Data Engineer

Union City, Ca · Senior

No sponsorship$131k-$216kDetected 7 days ago
JavaScriptPythonData StructuresSQLBigQuerySnowflakeAWSGCPCloud PlatformsMachine LearningdbtData VisualizationLLMsAgentic AIStatisticsCustomer SuccessRobotics

About the role

  • Company Description Third Wave Automation is a rapidly growing startup that has demonstrated its core technology components, proven its market fit, and just closed its Series C funding.
  • If you are excited about cutting edge machine learning, robotics that affects the real world, and want to join a company where your skills can have a huge impact, you'll fit right in.
  • Job Description Most data roles are about maintaining what already exists.

Responsibilities

  • We need a skeptic and a creator-someone who looks at a dashboard and asks, "What are we missing?" and then builds the model to find it.
  • You will have the autonomy to tear down existing models and build new ways to measure the performance of our autonomous fleet products in the real world.
  • Design and implement novel data models that don't just track what happened, but leverage simulation models to predict what will happen next in our customer environments.
  • Influence the design and support the documentation of the overall data structures to support the evolving needs of the organization.
  • Build strong partnerships with Engineering and Product teams to inform solution requirements and influence the roadmap based on your findings.
  • Experience working directly with Product Managers to build Product-Led Growth (PLG) funnels or using data to influence product feature prioritization.
  • A high bar for "Data Design." You don't just build charts; you build intuitive, executive-ready interfaces that tell a story at a glance.

Requirements

  • First-Principles Thinking: You should be more interested in the "why" than the "how" and have a demonstrated ability to think from the ground up.
  • Statistical Fluency: 7+ years of experience using advanced statistical techniques to analyze custom, non-linear data sets.
  • Database Architect Mindset: Technical proficiency in database design development, data models, and techniques for data mining and segmentation.
  • AI-Enabled Scale: Beyond traditional analysis, you have an appetite for deploying AI agents and automated workflows to expand our alerting surface area.
  • You know how to choose the right tech stack (BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt) without a pre-existing manual.
  • Domain Expertise in Physical Tech: Prior experience in Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, IoT, or Industrial Automation.
  • The "Analytics Engineer" Layer: Deep experience with dbt (data build tool) or similar framework for transforming raw data into clean, documented, and tested modeling layers.
  • Advanced Statistical Modeling: Ability to go beyond descriptive statistics into predictive modeling (e.g., using Python/R for churn prediction, anomaly detection in robot performance, or regression analysis).
  • We are unable to sponsor H-1 visas subject to fees required by the 'Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers' Presidential Proclamation dated September 21, 2025.

Nice to have

  • Proficiency in SQL, Python, or Javascript, with deep experience in data warehouses and analytics tools (BigQuery, Looker, GrafanaBigTable preferred).
  • Technical Mastery: Proficiency in SQL, Python, or Javascript, with deep experience in data warehouses and analytics tools (BigQuery, Looker, GrafanaBigTable preferred).

Skills

  • Company Description
  • Champion the use of generative AI tools (e.g., Gemini, Cursor) to automate the mundane and generate quality insights

Compensation

  • The pay range for this position is $131,000 - $216,000/yr+ benefits+equity; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits.
  • Health, Dental, Vision, and a 401k matching program, to boot!
  • Flexible working schedule.
  • We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
  • The pay range for this position is $131,000 - $216,000/yr+ benefits+equity; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Company info

  • Safety. We consider safety in everything we do.
  • People. We care about our teammates as people.
  • Encouragement. We encourage teaching, asking questions, and sharing opinions.
  • Transparency. We are transparent and sincere in our actions.

Equal opportunity

  • We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We are unable to sponsor H-1 visas subject to fees required by the 'Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers' Presidential Proclamation dated September 21, 2025
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