Senior OT Data Engineer
$170,000–$210,000 year
On-siteTorrance, California, United States
Job Summary
Own OT data architecture, standards, and roadmaps connecting industrial sources, historians, time-series databases, and controlled downstream consumers across reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs. Deploy/administer FactoryTalk Historian SE/AVEVA PI, InfluxDB, SQL, and virtualized data services while building OPC UA/MQTT/API/ETL ingestion pipelines that preserve source timestamps, quality, and traceability. Design controlled data transfer across security zones and air gaps, engineer retention/compression/query performance, and develop C#/PowerShell services for acquisition and validation. Monitor pipeline health, perform cybersecurity testing, and lead integration/commissioning with frequent field work in Torrance and Orangeville.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated ownership of industrial historian/time-series/data-integration systems in power generation, oil & gas, manufacturing, aerospace, or a similarly demanding environment
- Direct experience administering FactoryTalk Historian SE and its AVEVA PI foundation, including points/interfaces/archives/collectives/backup/recovery/performance
- Strong experience with InfluxDB/SQL or equivalent time-series/relational databases, including schema/retention/query/performance/backup/recovery
- Experience building production OPC UA/MQTT/API/ETL pipelines with explicit timestamp/quality/error/retry/idempotency behavior
- Experience developing semantic data models/metadata/tag context and Grafana or equivalent visualization/query interfaces
- Experience with Proxmox or equivalent virtualization plus RAID/ZFS or equivalent storage, capacity planning, replication, backup/restore, and data recovery
- Strong working knowledge of industrial networking, segmentation, air-gapped environments, unidirectional data flows, and controlled enterprise/cloud transfer
- Ability to develop/deploy/maintain data services and automation using C#/PowerShell/CMD or equivalent tools
- Strong technical writing/visualization/vendor-management/cybersecurity-testing skills and willingness to perform frequent field work in Orangeville
- You are willing to travel frequently and maintain a strong field presence during construction, commissioning, startup, outages, and incidents
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with high-volume/high-rate operational data, historian collectives, distributed buffering, replay, and loss/duplicate detection
- Experience in nuclear energy, power generation, oil & gas, chemical processing, advanced manufacturing, or other safety-conscious industries
- Experience designing data-diode/unidirectional egress and centralized monitoring for multiple isolated facilities
- Experience integrating SCADA/OT data with MES/LIMS/QMS while preserving system ownership, material genealogy, quality records, and security boundaries
- Experience delivering first-of-a-kind data platforms for greenfield facilities through commissioning/operations
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