Manufacturing Data Engineer
Ursus, Inc. · Posted Nov 12, 2026
- Foster City, California, United States
- On-site
- Contract · Senior
- $68–$78 per hour
- 6+ years
Design, build, and maintain the data pipelines and models powering Manufacturing Intelligence data lakehouse.
Compensation
$68 - $78/hr.
Responsibilities
- Build batch and streaming ingestion into Delta Lake using Auto Loader, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Lakeflow Connect, or Structured Streaming, including CDC feeds from AWS DMS and SAP SLT
- Design and maintain bronze, silver, and gold (medallion) layers that follow MOPS naming conventions and data dictionary standards
- Build incremental dbt models on Databricks (dbt-databricks), using MERGE and upsert patterns, SCD Type 2, and handling for late or out-of-order records
- Model manufacturing data for analytics, such as a single source of truth per unit (SFC), work orders, nonconformances, station results, and first-pass yield, and feed the semantic layer used by analysts
- Process large and semi-structured data, such as JSON test payloads, using PySpark and Databricks SQL
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field
- Nice to have: Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional
- Nice to have: AWS certification (Solutions Architect Associate)
- Nice to have: Manufacturing data background
- Nice to have: Data governance and compliance