Data Platform Engineer – Data Operations (all genders)

Job description

About Us STARK is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionizing the way autonomous systems are deployed across multiple domains. We design, develop and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost-effective. This provides our operators with a decisive edge in highly contested environments. We're focused on delivering deployable, high-performance systems — not future promises. In a time of rising threats, STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe — today. About the team The Data Operations team owns the entire data lifecycle behind STARK's AI stack: collection, acquisition, generation, curation, and management. We run our own data-collection campaigns across Europe, evaluate new sensors and platforms, and build the internal data platform that turns raw recordings into ready-to-use datasets. Everything we produce feeds directly into the perception and autonomy systems deployed on STARK's platforms — a real data advantage is built, not bought. The team is scaling up right now: real scope, direct impact, no legacy. Your mission Data is the fuel of STARK’s AI stack — you build the engine that makes it usable. You own the software backbone of our data platform: the metadata systems, ETL pipelines, data contracts, catalogs, databases, and internal tools that let engineers find, understand, validate, and reuse terabytes of multi-sensor field data in minutes, not days. You treat data context as a product: structured, searchable, version-aware, documented, and traceable from raw recording to processed asset, annotation delivery, dataset, and downstream ML workflow. Success in this role requires seamless cross-functional collaboration—acting as the central hub between the teams collecting data in the field, our external annotation vendors, and the ML engineers training the models. Your job is to design the automated workflows and data tooling that unify these groups, transforming raw operational data into reliable, high-quality systems at scale. Responsibilities Build the Data Backbone: Design, write, and maintain robust Python software and ETL pipelines that ingest, process, and merge complex field recordings (flight data, rosbags, video) and external deliveries into our GCP cloud storage. Create Data Tooling: Build the programmatic…