Data Engineer
HadrianAerospace & company
Los Angeles, United States$150,000 - $230,000Senior
Founders Fund
Lux Capital
Andreessen Horowitz
T. Rowe Price
Altimeter Capital
Morgan Stanley
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Architect and own Hadrian's semantic and metric layer, ensuring data consistency across factories.
- •Hadrian's Data Analytics team builds and owns the semantic layer that every dashboard, board metric, and AI Analyst answer at Hadrian resolves to.
- •As Hadrian scales from a handful of factories to twenty and beyond, this team makes sure a metric means the same thing in every factory, every dashboard, and every decision
- •one definition, one number, no matter who's asking.
- •Key Responsibilities Architect and maintain the certified dataset layer in dbt: models, tests, documentation, and SLAs the whole company trusts.
- •Build well-modeled, context-rich datasets that power self-service analytics, operations research, and LLM-based data apps at company scale.
- •Define metric standards: canonical definitions, calculation logic, ownership, refresh cadence.
- •Implement canonical data models and semantic layer that scale from 1 to 20+ factories.
- •Partner with Data Platform Engineering to harden the unified data platform and set standards.
- •Requirements Production ownership of data models (years scale with level; see Level & Justification).
- •Expert SQL (window functions, CTEs) with a real grasp of query performance and cost.
- •Ships production data pipelines with Spark, dbt, and Dagster or equivalents.
- •Strong data-modeling foundation (normalization, denormalization, star/snowflake schemas).
- •Familiar with lake and warehouse internals (columnar stores, Iceberg catalog, partitioning, materializations).
Required skills
SQLdbtPythonSparkDagsterSnowflakeDatabricksCI/CDDockerKubernetes
Nice-to-have skills
Airflow
Domain expertise
aerospacedefense
Benefits & perks
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans, 401k, Relocation support, Flexible vacation policy, Equity
Tech stack
PythonSQLSparkdbtDagsterSnowflakeDatabricksGitLinuxCI/CDDockerKubernetesAWSGoogle CloudAzure