
Telematics Data Engineer
Ford Motor Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Minnesota • United States
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Salary
💰 $72,480 - $162,120 per year
About the role
- Build and operate end-to-end data pipelines (ETL/ELT) that ingest and process large-scale vehicle telemetry, including GPS, speed, and engine diagnostics.
- Implement and maintain integrations with Google Maps APIs for geocoding, snap-to-road functionality, and distance calculations.
- Develop and optimize data models in BigQuery using GEOGRAPHY types and spatial indexing (e.g., S2 or H3 cells) for efficient geospatial querying.
- Maintain data flowing through Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers to support trip reconstruction and reporting.
- Build and manage pipeline orchestration using Airflow/Astronomer and ensure deployments follow CI/CD standards using Terraform and Git.
- Implement automated checks to detect GPS drift, signal loss, or data inconsistencies using tools like Splunk, Grafana, or Looker.
- Apply data governance and compliance controls, ensuring the protection of sensitive location data and PII.
- Monitor GCP resource usage (BigQuery, Dataflow, GCS) to ensure cost-effective processing of high-frequency telematics data.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response to maintain the reliability of data services.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in data engineering or a similar technical role and direct experience in telemetry, IoT, or time-series data.
- 3+ years Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Dataproc).
- 1+ year experience working with Google Maps Platform APIs or similar geospatial web services.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with PySpark and geospatial libraries (e.g., GeoPandas, Shapely).
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time
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Hard Skills & Tools
ETLELTdata pipelinesdata modelsBigQueryPythonSQLPySparkgeospatial queryingdata governance