Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

About Epirus

Epirus is a high-growth technology company dedicated to overcoming the asymmetric challenges inherent to the future of national security. Epirus' flagship product, Leonidas, is a software-defined system built using intelligent power management techniques which allow power-hungry systems to do more with less.

Job Summary :  We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer with a strong foundation in data infrastructure and orchestration, proven in disciplined, structured environments, to take ownership of the full lifecycle of data and model-serving pipelines—from ingestion and transformation (including video) to deployment, monitoring, and optimization. You'll design and maintain scalable, high-performance data and inference systems, enforce rigorous governance standards, and ensure our pipelines and infrastructure operate with enterprise-grade reliability.

Responsibilities :

Data Engineering & Pipeline Development

• Design, implement, and maintain production-quality data transformation and pipeline code, with clear documentation for reproducibility.
• Refactor and optimize existing pipelines for performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Build and manage databases — including large-scale video data storage, indexing, and retrieval.
• Develop and orchestrate ETL / ELT workflows (Airflow or similar).

Infrastructure & Systems Administration

Guardian of Codebase & Data Governance

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Preferred Skills and Experience :

Additional Requirements :

ITAR REQUIREMENTS :

At Epirus, you'll work with technical peers and great people—and get first crack at some of the defining technology challenges of our time. Here, "impossible" is just a challenge. We're a diverse, fast-growing team of change-makers fueling the future of energy with revolutionary solutions. Join us and rewrite the rules.

As required by the Equal Pay Transparency Act, Epirus provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location.

For the state of California only, the range of starting pay for this role is :

$170,500—$201,500 USD