# Data Engineer, Airships to Cloud at HyLight

- Company: HyLight (YC S23)
- What the company does: Unmanned airships for inspecting our critical assets. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.hylight.aero/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Paris, France / Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-11-02
- Apply by: 2026-12-17
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hylight/jobs/95wfvGE-data-engineer-airships-to-cloud?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hylight-data-engineer-airships-to-cloud-2/

## About the role

Every HyLighter flight produces a lot of data: LiDAR, imagery, methane data, etc. That data is what we turn into insights for our customers. Between the sensor and the customer insight reporting it goes through a long chain. It is captured by the payload, offloaded into a data upload system in our field trucks after each operation, uploaded to the cloud, ingested, and processed. Every link in that chain has to work, every time. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Generalist mindset. You move across hardware, network, and software without asking whose job it is
- Reliability-obsessed. You'd rather build a check than hope it works, and you write the runbook so the next person doesn't need you
- Cost-aware. You treat money and operator time as engineering constraints
- Autonomous. Hand you a fuzzy problem and you come back with a v1 and the right follow-up questions
- Field-ready. Comfortable in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary team, and happy to go to the trucks when that's where the problem is
- Languages: English is required. French is a plus

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hylight-data-engineer-airships-to-cloud-2/