Badger Meter - Where Every Drop Counts and So Do YouAt Badger Meter, we're more than a leading global water technology company - we're innovators with a mission: to preserve and protect the world's most precious resource. For over
120 years, our trusted solutions have enabled our customers to optimize the delivery and use of water, maximize revenue and reduce waste.
Every employee at Badger Meter is an important part of our success. Here, your work doesn't just move a business forward - it shapes a more sustainable future. We are committed to building a workplace where we celebrate differences, empower voices, and encourage fresh ideas that drive innovation.
When you join us, you'll find:
- Purpose-driven work that makes a real difference in communities around the globe.
- Career growth and development opportunities designed to help you achieve your potential.
- A supportive, inclusive culture where collaboration and creativity thrive.
Be part of something bigger. At Badger Meter, your contributions will ripple far beyond the workplace - creating lasting change for people and the planet.
What You Will Contribute:The Senior Engineer, Systems Integration is a mid-career position of independence and ownership of large investigations and projects. The Senior Engineer will define the scope and tasks for the investigations and may perform the efforts themselves or with one or more engineers assisting. The incumbent must possess strong knowledge of modeling techniques and system performance, and can define resources and time needed to estimate project efforts. This role focuses on the reliability, security, and scalability of our product monitoring platform ecosystem, encompassing Over-the-Air (OTA) updates, firmware management, outage detection, alerting and automation systems, database infrastructure, and cloud services. The Senior Engineer will represent the team on projects and investigations, report findings to leadership, and act as a mentor to other engineers.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES:Leadership & Scope-Setting- Act as project lead engineer; may lead a technical team
- Define the scope of a task/project; develop or provide input to schedules and budgets
- Define and control product designs
- Mentor other engineers, including guidance on data ingress, cleaning, and infrastructure maintenance/development
- Provide oversight of dashboards, product support/issues, and customer issues
Platform & Systems Ownership- Design, build, and maintain enhancements across our machine learning pipeline orchestration, predictive analytics, and device management platforms to keep telemetry, prediction, and control workflows reliable at scale
- Support and maintain our OTA update management system, including campaign monitoring, firmware management tooling, and OTA process support
- Maintain and enhance monitoring dashboards and customer-support data interfaces so monitoring and support teams have reliable, real-time visibility into device, network and platform health
- Lead troubleshooting, stabilization, and root-cause investigation across platform alerting, data synchronization, machine learning pipeline failures, and outage detection issues
- Support the ML automation and job-orchestration infrastructure that enables repeatable, scalable execution of pipeline, monitoring, and automation workflows
Infrastructure & Cloud- Support infrastructure modernization efforts, including migration of legacy systems and services to modern cloud-based environments
- Implement backup automation, data normalization processes, and archival solutions to ensure data integrity and accessibility across systems
- Support AWS cloud infrastructure, including compute optimization, load balancing, service configuration, and security implementation (e.g., SSL, authentication)
- Contribute to database migration and performance stabilization efforts in partnership with data architecture teams
Data & ML Collaboration- Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to support machine learning-driven initiatives, including data pipeline development, query optimization, and deployment support for outage detection models
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, digital engineering, and analytics teams to deliver shared infrastructure solutions
Documentation & Process- Initiate and manage tickets in the team's ticketing system (e.g., JIRA)
- Write, review, validate, and audit procedures
QUALIFICATIONS:Education- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, or Data Analytics, or equivalent practical experience
Required Experience & Technical Skills- 5+ years of related experience
- Advanced foundation in engineering fundamentals
- Experience with Grafana, SQL, NoSQL, Python (Jupyter Notebooks), Elasticsearch, C# or other programming languages
- Experience with Amazon Web Services, S3, SageMaker, Ec2, ECS, Glue, Kibana, and other data platforms
- Experience with statistics, econometrics, machine learning, or other mathematical modeling and simulation techniques
- Experience with data visualization and business intelligence (BI) tools
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, and automation systems in a production environment
- Experience with database administration, performance tuning, and migration projects
Preferred Qualifications- Strong electronic product knowledge
- Independently solve problems and implement solutions
- Demonstrated appropriate judgment/decision level of authority
- Demonstrated ability to drive projects to completion
- Experience with IoT device, sensor, or endpoint monitoring at scale
- Familiarity with firmware deployment or OTA (over-the-air) update processes
- Experience managing ML pipelines end-to-end, from training through deployment and production monitoring
Competitive Total Rewards at Badger Meter:- Competitive Pay
- Annual Bonus
- Eligible for Annual Pay Increases
- Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental Coverage
- 15 days Paid Time Off + 11 Paid Holidays
- Two Ways to Save for Retirement: Badger Meter contributes 25 cents for every dollar you contribute to the plan, up to 7% of your eligible compensation. In addition to the match, the company will also contribute 5% of your eligible compensation to your Defined Contribution account on an annual basis. Additional access to a certified financial planner to help ensure your money is working for you, at no cost!
- Employer Paid benefits including: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Basic Group Life Insurance, Short Term Disability, and more
- Educational Assistance - Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250
- Voluntary benefits including: Additional Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Accident and Critical Illness coverage
- Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Applicants can learn more about their rights regarding equal opportunity in employment by viewing the federal "EEO is the Law" poster and the "EEO is the Law" poster supplement at ;br>
Badger Meter complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local disability laws. This means that we will reasonably accommodate qualified employees with a disability if accommodation would allow them to perform the essential functions of their job, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.
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