Pivotal Systems

Pivotal Systems

Data Engineer - Flight Data (contract)

Palo Alto, CA

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About the role

  • Pivotal is the leader in the emerging market of electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
  • Last year we announced our next-generation aircraft, the Helix, which is rapidly progressing toward general release and scalable production in 2026.
  • Mobility is one of the most highly-valued areas of modern technology investments.

Responsibilities

  • Pipeline development: Build and maintain the ingest and transformation pipelines that land aircraft telemetry from S3 into the flight data warehouse (AWS Glue, Athena), including schema evolution as firmware logging changes.
  • Data modeling: Design and maintain curated marts - flight runs, component flight hours, vehicle modes, battery flight features - in SQL, with clear grain, documented lineage, and idempotent incremental refresh.
  • Data quality: Own the automated quality gates - mart freshness, source-to-mart reconciliation, and watermark integrity - and block deploys that would publish incorrect fleet data.
  • Analytics enablement: Build the dashboards and query interfaces engineering teams use to monitor the fleet, and convert repeated one-off analyses into supported datasets.
  • We design, develop, and manufacture light eVTOL aircraft and are renowned for the BlackFly aircraft the world's first light eVTOL to fly manned missions and enter the consumer market.
  • Efficient, compact, and simple, Pivotal aircraft are designed for a wide range of consumer, public service, and defense applications.
  • Pivotal is seeking a Data Engineer to build and operate the flight data warehouse - the system of record for telemetry off every aircraft in the fleet.
  • This is a small team building production infrastructure, so you will own pipelines end to end: the data model, the services that run on it, the infrastructure as code that deploys them, and the monitoring that tells us when they break.
  • Build and maintain the ingest and transformation pipelines that land aircraft telemetry from S3 into the flight data warehouse (AWS Glue, Athena), including schema evolution as firmware logging changes.
  • Design and maintain curated marts - flight runs, component flight hours, vehicle modes, battery flight features - in SQL, with clear grain, documented lineage, and idempotent incremental refresh.

Requirements

  • If you are ready for adventure, we invite you to join our amazing team and grow with us.
  • Preferred Qualifications
  • Applicants must be eligible for employment in the United States and willing to work onsite at our HQ office in Palo Alto, CA. Pivotal offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, and 401k plans. Pivotal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Pivotal does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity/experience with one or more of the following
  • Pivotal is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Benefits

  • Fleet alerting services: Develop and operate the Python services that evaluate flight-by-flight health checks and deliver alerts to engineering and customer-facing channels via SNS and Slack.

Company info

  • Our distinctive tilt-aircraft architecture and scalable platform have been flying for over 10 years.
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