Data Engineer

Job Description

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Department Operations - Data Services Job posted on Jun 06, 2025 Employee Type FTE Experience range (Years) 3 years - 7 years About Toyota Connected If you want to change the way the world works, transform the automotive industry and positively impact others on a global scale, then Toyota Connected is the right place for you! Within our collaborative, fast-paced environment we focus on continual improvement and work in a highly iterative way to deliver exceptional value in the form of connected products and services that wow and delight our customers and the world around us. About the Team Toyota Connected India is looking for an experienced Data Engineer to build and optimize data pipelines for a real-time Digital Twin platform powering mobility simulation, complex event processing, and multi-agent learning. You’ll design the backbone for scalable, low-latency ingestion and processing of high-volume sensor, vehicle, and infrastructure data to feed prediction models and simulations. What you will do Design and implement streaming data pipelines from IoT sensors, camera, vehicle telemetry, and infrastructure systems. Build scalable infrastructure using Kinesis, Apache Flink / Spark for real-time and batch workloads. Enable time-series feature stores and sliding window processing for mobility patterns. Integrate simulation outputs and model predictions into data lakes in AWS. Maintain data validation, schema versioning, and high-throughput ingestion. Collaborate with Data Scientists and Simulation Engineers to optimize data formats (e.g., Parquet, Protobuf, Delta Lake). Deploy and monitor pipelines on AWS cloud and/or edge infrastructure. You are a successful candidate if you have 3+ years of experience in data engineering, preferably with real-time systems. Proficient with Python, SQL, and distributed data systems (Kinesis, Spark, Flink, etc.). Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, data lakes, and message serialization. Experience with sensor data processing, telemetry ingestion, or mobility data is a plus. Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures. Familiarity with building data pipelines & its workflows (eg: Airflow). Preferred Qualifications: Exposure to smart city platforms, V2X ecosystems or other timeseries paradigms. Experience integrating data from Camera and other sensors. What is in it for you? Top of the line compensation! You'll be treated like the professional we know you are and left to manage your own time and workload. Yearly gym membership reimbursement & Free catered lunches. No dress code! We trust you are responsible enough to choose what’s appropriate to wear for the day. Opportunity to build products that improves the safety and convenience of millions of customers Cool office space and other awesome benefits! Our Core Values: EPIC Empathetic: We begin making decisions by looking at the world from the perspective of our customers, teammates, and partners. Passionate: We are here to build something great, not just for the money. We are always looking to improve the experience of our millions of customers Innovative: We experiment with ideas to get to the best solution. Any constraint is a challenge, and we love looking for creative ways to solve them. Collaborative: When it comes to people, we think the whole is greater than its parts and that everyone has a role to play in the success!