Data Engineer, Faraday Future
Agent Systems
$85-95k
Plus incentive plans
Office located in El Segundo, CA
Intelligent electric mobility manufacturer
Job no longer available
Intelligent electric mobility manufacturer
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$85-95k
Plus incentive plans
Office located in El Segundo, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To perpetually improve the ecosystem and the way everyone moves and connects with the world.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field
- 0–2 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, platform engineering, or related areas; internships, research, open-source contributions, or strong academic projects count
- Solid programming skills in Python and strong working knowledge of SQL
- Basic experience with at least one data processing or orchestration tool, such as Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, or dbt
- Understanding of relational databases, schema design, joins, indexing, and query performance trade-offs
- Familiarity with Linux, Git, Docker, and modern software development workflows
- Interest in AI agents, RAG, developer platforms, open-source ecosystems, robotics, vehicles, or embodied intelligence
Desirable
- Professional working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese and English
- Exposure to analytical databases, warehouses, or storage systems such as ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, S3, GCS, or Parquet
- Familiarity with vector retrieval and RAG infrastructure, including embedding pipelines, metadata filtering, hybrid search, reindexing, pgvector, FAISS, Milvus, Weaviate, or Pinecone
- Exposure to developer portals, SDK/API platforms, technical documentation platforms, DevOps toolchains, open-source communities, or Agent Skill Store-style ecosystems
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, data lineage, cost monitoring, or production incident response
- Basic understanding of privacy and compliance concepts such as GDPR, CCPA, data minimization, tokenization, pseudonymization, and role-based access control
What the job involves
- As a Data Engineer (Agent Systems) in the Developer Portal & Infrastructure Department, you will help build the data foundation for FF’s EAI Developer Platform, Open Developer Platform, and agent-system capabilities across its robotics and vehicle businesses
- You will work with AI agent, backend, platform, and security teams to support data pipelines, RAG knowledge infrastructure, developer portal analytics, platform telemetry, and data quality systems that power Developer Portal, SDK/API, Data Engine, DevOps & Toolchain, and Agent Skill Store experiences
- Build and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines for developer platform data, including documentation, SDK/API metadata, developer activity, platform telemetry, system logs, feedback signals, and business events
- Support RAG and agent knowledge systems by preparing, cleaning, chunking, embedding, indexing, and refreshing data from technical documents, API references, code repositories, and developer support content
- Design and evolve schemas, data models, and storage patterns across relational databases, analytical stores, object storage, and vector retrieval systems
- Create and maintain datasets for developer portal analytics, platform health monitoring, API usage analysis, Data Engine reporting, and open-source ecosystem insights
- Validate data correctness, freshness, latency, and retrieval quality for production agent workflows and developer-facing platform features
- Improve data quality and reliability through monitoring dashboards, validation checks, freshness alerts, lineage tracking, incident reviews, and operational runbooks
- Follow security, privacy, and compliance practices for access control, retention, auditability, sensitive data handling, and PII protection
Our take
The world of transformative vehicle technologies goes far beyond household-named companies like Tesla. Faraday Future is creating user-centric technology first vehicles, establishing new paradigms in human-vehicle interaction by combining mobility with artificial intelligence, the internet, and advanced R&D technology, effectively changing the way we travel.
Electric vehicles offer more flexibility in terms of space utilisation, and the design of Faraday Future’s EVs is unmatched. Designed with "TechLuxury" in mind, the vehicles were designed from the inside out, building a vehicle around a truly unique interior. The company is integrating TTS technology from Cerence, bringing a human-like quality to its in-car assistant.
The automotive startup has faced supply chain challenges affecting the entire industry but has received staggering amounts of funding to accelerate growth and the development of this Faraday X (FX) strategy. With its first two FX prototypes set for testing in Los Angeles very soon, the company is poised for exciting progress in its innovations.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2019
$225m
LATE VC
Mar 2019
$600m
LATE VC
Total funding: $2.8bn
Company benefits
- Modern workspace incorporating the latest technologies
- Employee referral program
- Paid relocation
- 401k retirement plan
- Generous healthcare, vision, and dental care – free to employees and discounted for partners and families
- Stock options
- Foosball and ping pong tables including tournaments
- Frequent social events, happy hours, and team parties
- “Soul of Faraday” community outreach team
- Casual dress code and relaxed work environment
- Free parking – with carpool reimbursement
Company HQ
Harbor Gateway North, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Matthias Aydt
(CEO)They initially joined Faraday Future in 2016 as a Vehicle Line Executive and have worked a number of roles before becoming Global CEO in 2023. Prior to this, they were an Executive Director of Vehicle Engineering/Vice President of Engineering at Qoros Auto and the Head of Project Management China/Shanghai Brand Manager at Magna Steyr.
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