2 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain internal web applications for browsing, querying, and analyzing aircraft flight data.
- Develop Python backend services and HTTP APIs that query Athena and S3, including pagination and caching for large result sets.
- Build frontend interfaces with sortable tables, filters, and time-series visualizations for large telemetry datasets.
- Create AI-assisted, agent-based diagnostic tools that provide verifiable data and derivation details.
- Convert recurring analyses for firmware, GNC, battery, and maintenance teams into supported self-service tools.
- Generate and maintain a machine-readable data catalog and internal field guide from the data warehouse.
- Build fleet-health alert review and triage interfaces with acknowledgment, history, and trend views.
- Package and distribute analysis tools for engineers’ laptops, including Windows environments.
- Own deployment, testing, code review, CI/CD, monitoring, and documentation.
- Collaborate directly with engineering teams to understand needs and scope tools from conversational requirements.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of professional experience building and shipping web applications across backend and frontend systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficiency in Python and comfort writing SQL against a real database.
- Experience with a modern JavaScript or TypeScript frontend framework such as React or Vue.
- Experience building and consuming HTTP APIs, including authentication, pagination, and error handling.
- Comfort with Git-based workflows, code review, and CI/CD.
- Ability to work directly with non-software engineers to understand needs and deliver tools.
- Preferred: AWS experience, particularly S3, Athena, Lambda, or API Gateway.
- Preferred: experience with large or time-series datasets, responsive interfaces over millions of rows, charting or visualization libraries, and Grafana.
- Preferred: Docker, Terraform, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, structured-data retrieval, and output evaluation.
- Preferred or relevant familiarity with aerospace, automotive, robotics telemetry, flight or vehicle test data, desktop or command-line packaging, Windows, SSO, IAM, access control, regulated environments, and conversational interfaces.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401k benefits.
- Onsite work at the company headquarters in Palo Alto, California.
- Applicants must be eligible for employment in the United States.
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringFull Stack
About Pivotal
Pivotal is a philanthropic and programmatic organization founded by Melinda French Gates that supports programs, investments, and policy to expand women’s and young people’s power and opportunities in the U.S. and worldwide. It operates through Pivotal Philanthropies, Pivotal Initiatives Fund, and Pivotal Ventures, using grants and strategic partnerships rather than selling products. The organization is privately held and headquartered in Seattle.