Data Lead (Defense)

About Air Space Intelligence

ASI's mission-critical technology powers decision-making across aviation defense energy and other critical infrastructure domains. Backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz Spark Capital and Renegade Partners ASI delivers operational decision superiority—compressing days of analysis into seconds of action. ASI is leading the way and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

What You Will Do:

You will own the reality layer that powers ASI's defense products. You will operate improve and expand the data flows that move operational data from mission systems into usable trusted datasets for decision-making. This role is equal parts data engineering data forensics and technical communication. You will dig into real-world data determine what it actually means and translate findings into clear actionable pipelines ready to drive mission-critical decisions for end users.

What We Value:

• Strong fluency with modern data engineering tooling and patterns: streaming and batch pipelines schema evolution data contracts and lineage.

• Demonstrated ability to debug data: profiling anomaly detection reconciling sources and separating signal from noise while cross-validating.

• Strong technical communication skills: you can explain what the data is doing what it means what is broken why it matters and what engineering should change.

• Comfort with distributed messaging and processing (Kafka Flink Spark or equivalents) and modern orchestration (Airflow Dagster Temporal or similar).

• Strong grasp of API design and integration patterns (REST gRPC GraphQL) and experience working across a range of data formats and wire-level protocols (JSON XML Protobuf and binary protocols like JREAP-C or CMF-B).

• Working knowledge of modern network protocols firewalls system level connections cross-system authentication and an enthusiasm to get data flowing.

• Familiarity with defense operational data and mission systems with an appreciation for delayed reporting inconsistent identifiers changing semantics and obscure edge cases.

• Comfort operating in classified network environments (e.g. SIPR JWICS) and working within accreditation boundaries (IL5/IL6 ATO processes).

• Experience deploying data infrastructure on Kubernetes and across hybrid cloud and on-prem environments.

• A bias for action and distinct aptitude for problem solving in ambiguous environments.

• Active SECRET or TOP SECRET U.S. Security Clearance.

How We Hire:

We look at the interview process not as a screening or test but rather as an opportunity to simulate what it would look like working together. We build the interview process around you.

What We Do

ASI is a dual-use software company that deploys predictive AI to the world's most complex operating environments. Backed by leading investors–including Andreessen Horowitz Renegade Partners and Spark Capital–we actively manage over 40% of all US air traffic across both public and private sector air operations. Partnering with major airlines like United and Alaska we optimize thousands of flights daily delivering millions in fuel savings and reducing flight times for customers. Today we're expanding our industry-proven capabilities into new domains including global logistics maritime and energy. Come join our founding engineering team in Boston as we build the future of complex operations.

Why Work With Us

You will do everything from ideate and develop new products from the ground up (0 to 1) to refine and optimize existing solutions (1 to n). In a small-team fast-paced environment you'll set standards for excellence while collaborating across the business. Your work will drive real impact.

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