Ford is hiring a Telematics Data Engineer to build and maintain scalable data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform. You will process high-velocity vehicle telemetry and geospatial data, transforming raw GPS and CAN-bus signals into high-quality assets using Medallion architectures and integrating Map APIs for critical spatial context.
What You'll Do
- 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 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.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in data engineering or a similar technical role.
- 3+ years experience with 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.
- Direct experience in telemetry, IoT, or time-series data.
Technical Stack
- Google Cloud Platform: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Dataproc
- Infrastructure: Terraform, Git, Airflow/Astronomer
- Languages: Python, SQL, PySpark
- Geospatial: GeoPandas, Shapely, Google Maps Platform APIs
- Monitoring: Splunk, Grafana, Looker
Team & Environment
Join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $72,480 - $162,120.
- 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.
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments.
- 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.
- 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.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates in the United States.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.
