Dufour Aerospace · Dübendorf
Skills: Python, CI/CD, Accessibility
The Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) & Data Engineer will be responsible for the end-to-end handling, quality assurance, accessibility, and long-term management of all flight data. The primary objective is to ensure that full-aircraft data, from the onboard sensors and DAQ systems to the final processing tools, is available to every engineering team through a reliable, efficient, and standardized workflow.
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Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) & DAQ Pipeline
Manage the data pipeline from the physical sensor and Data Acquisition (DAQ) level for the full aircraft, ensuring seamless and accurate transmission into the telemetry and storage systems. Maintain sensor configuration, calibration records, and metadata to guarantee the accurate translation of raw physical signals into usable engineering units. Collaborate with hardware, software and integration teams to define sensor requirements, DAQ architectures, scaling, and telemetry bandwidth allocations. Troubleshoot and resolve data anomalies at the DAQ and sensor level (e.g., signal noise, dropouts, faulty scaling) before they propagate into downstream databases.
Data Infrastructure & Accessibility
Maintain reliable extraction of flight data from InfluxDB. Develop and maintain standardized local data structures for analysis, plotting, and visualization. Optimize access to large flight datasets while minimizing CPU and memory usage. Design and maintain an efficient local storage solution for processed flight data. Support future improvements to the flight data architecture as storage requirements, sensor counts, and analysis needs continue to evolve.
Data Quality & Analysis Support
Maintain derived datasets to ensure common calculations and signals are shared consistently across teams. Ensure strict timing synchronization and timestamp accuracy across all recorded data, from the sensor acquisition point to the database. Monitor data quality, completeness, and integrity throughout the entire pipeline. …truncated… TLAB…
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