Principle Data Engineer

Job Title: Principal Data Engineer

Location: San Diego, CA

Employment Type: Contract (12 months)

Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing

Compensation: $90.95 - $100.05 /hr.

Schedule: 40 hrs/Week.

About the Opportunity:

• Join a pioneering research organization developing next-generation lithography light source technologies. 
• In this role, you'll help build the data foundation that enables scientists and engineers to accelerate research, connect experimental and simulation data, and unlock new opportunities in analytics and machine learning. You'll combine hands-on data engineering with technical leadership to create scalable, secure, and well-governed data solutions.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

This role offers the opportunity to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while providing you with room to grow and develop professionally. 

About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider- we help companies compete for talent. With experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and design talent solutions that deliver the business outcomes they want. We draw on decades of experience to provide contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit?

TODAY

What You'll Do:

• Define and evolve data architecture strategies and standards that support analytics, machine learning, simulation, and research workflows.
• Build and integrate scalable data pipelines connecting experimental systems, research prototypes, test benches, simulations, and other diverse data sources.
• Establish practical data governance practices covering metadata, lineage, access controls, security, data quality, and lifecycle management.
• Monitor and optimize data pipelines by implementing validation and quality controls, troubleshooting issues, and improving reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with scientists, engineers, and IT teams to shape a common data platform architecture and enable integration with physics-based models, AI capabilities, and high-performance computing resources.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Statistics or Math or Data Science.
• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or scientific/engineering data platforms.
• 10+ years of hands-on development experience in Python and modern data engineering tooling.
• 10+ years of experience in building and operating scalable big data pipelines, analytics platforms, and data products that support data-intensive scientific and engineering workflows.
• 10+ years of experience in cloud and distributed data platforms such as Azure, Azure Databricks, Apache Spark, Kubernetes, and data lake architectures.
• 10+ years of experience in supporting scientific or engineering workflows (for example, simulation, HPC, instrumentation, or time-series sensor data).

What Sets You Apart:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or Statistics or Math or Data Science.
• Solid understanding of data modeling, metadata management, data lineage, data quality, governance, security, and access control.
• Familiarity with AI/ML workflows and MLOps practices.
• Good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate technical details into clear and actionable guidance.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
• Be willing to work extended hours and second shift as needed.

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