ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES
Leadership & Scope-Setting
Act as project lead engineer; may lead a technical team
Define the scope of a task/project; develop or provide input to schedules and budgets
Define and control product designs
Mentor other engineers, including guidance on data ingress, cleaning, and infrastructure maintenance/development
Provide oversight of dashboards, product support/issues, and customer issues
Platform & Systems Ownership
Design, build, and maintain enhancements across our machine learning pipeline orchestration, predictive analytics, and device management platforms to keep telemetry, prediction, and control workflows reliable at scale
Support and maintain our OTA update management system, including campaign monitoring, firmware management tooling, and OTA process support
Maintain and enhance monitoring dashboards and customer-support data interfaces so monitoring and support teams have reliable, real-time visibility into device, network and platform health
Lead troubleshooting, stabilization, and root-cause investigation across platform alerting, data synchronization, machine learning pipeline failures, and outage detection issues
Support the ML automation and job-orchestration infrastructure that enables repeatable, scalable execution of pipeline, monitoring, and automation workflows
Infrastructure & Cloud
Support infrastructure modernization efforts, including migration of legacy systems and services to modern cloud-based environments
Implement backup automation, data normalization processes, and archival solutions to ensure data integrity and accessibility across systems
Support AWS cloud infrastructure, including compute optimization, load balancing, service configuration, and security implementation (e.g., SSL, authentication)
Contribute to database migration and performance stabilization efforts in partnership with data architecture teams
Data & ML Collaboration
Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to support machine learning-driven initiatives, including data pipeline development, query optimization, and deployment support for outage detection models
Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, digital engineering, and analytics teams to deliver shared infrastructure solutions
Documentation & Process
Initiate and manage tickets in the team's ticketing system (e.g., JIRA)
Write, review, validate, and audit procedures
QUALIFICATIONS
Education
Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, or Data Analytics, or equivalent practical experience
Required Experience & Technical Skills
5+ years of related experience
Advanced foundation in engineering fundamentals
Experience with Grafana, SQL, NoSQL, Python (Jupyter Notebooks), Elasticsearch, C# or other programming languages
Experience with Amazon Web Services, S3, SageMaker, Ec2, ECS, Glue, Kibana, and other data platforms
Experience with statistics, econometrics, machine learning, or other mathematical modeling and simulation techniques
Experience with data visualization and business intelligence (BI) tools
Experience with monitoring, alerting, and automation systems in a production environment
Experience with database administration, performance tuning, and migration projects
Preferred Qualifications
Strong electronic product knowledge
Independently solve problems and implement solutions
Demonstrated appropriate judgment/decision level of authority
Demonstrated ability to drive projects to completion
Experience with IoT device, sensor, or endpoint monitoring at scale
Familiarity with firmware deployment or OTA (over-the-air) update processes
Experience managing ML pipelines end-to-end, from training through deployment and production monitoring
Competitive Total Rewards at Badger Meter
Competitive Pay
Annual Bonus
Eligible for Annual Pay Increases
Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental Coverage
15 days Paid Time Off + 11 Paid Holidays
Two Ways to Save for Retirement: Badger Meter contributes 25 cents for every dollar you contribute to the plan, up to 7% of your eligible compensation. In addition to the match, the company will also contribute 5% of your eligible compensation to your Defined Contribution account on an annual basis. Additional access to a certified financial planner to help ensure your money is working for you, at no cost!
Employer Paid benefits including: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Basic Group Life Insurance, Short Term Disability, and more
Educational Assistance – Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250
Voluntary benefits including: Additional Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Accident and Critical Illness coverage
Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
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