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Data Engineer

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Ford — San Diego, CA
Contract Mid-Level $106,000 - $141,000 Posted 2026-10-24 Closes 2026-12-18
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The opportunity

We are assembling a world-class technology team and want a Data Engineer who can write SQL that performs under pressure. For a quality-obsessed professional with 4+ years behind them, this contract Data Engineer job delivers $106,000 - $141,000 and meaningful growth.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build SQL dashboards so Ford's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers
  • Sketch Work-Life Balance sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone
  • Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
  • Chase down the SQL integration that silently drops Ford events at midnight
  • Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at Ford can explain
  • Ship Snowflake fixes to Ford customers in San Diego, CA the same day they report them
  • Cut Hypothesis Testing cold-start times so Ford functions wake before CA users notice
  • Own a technology service end to end, from Generative AI schema to on-call rotation

What You'll Bring

  • A Ford mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow
  • The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten
  • 3+ years navigating the politics that technology work attracts
  • Detail-oriented approach with a commitment to accuracy
  • Calm under the trust-the-team chaos a mid-level role tends to generate

Ford keeps technology systems running for clients who never think about them, which is the calmly-fast-moving San Diego, CA point. Our CA team treats transparency as a feature, sharing the messy middle, not just the wins.

At Ford, you'll find $106,000 - $141,000, a four-day flex week option, and ongoing coaching to deepen your BigQuery skills.

Interviews for San Diego, CA candidates are being booked throughout the month.

We're not after perfect, we're after ready, so if that's you, apply for Data Engineer now.

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What we're looking for

  • Vertex AI
  • Generative AI
  • SQL
  • Snowflake
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • BigQuery
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Time Management
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What you'll get

  • Employee Discounts
  • Relocation Assistance
  • Company Car
  • Payroll advance options
  • Equipment Allowance
  • Learning Stipend
  • Biometric screenings

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