Data Engineer at Foxconn Industrial Internet - FII
Houston, TX
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Aug 10, 2026
Houston, TX
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A data engineering role at Foxconn's Houston server manufacturing facilities, focused on building and maintaining ETL pipelines — including an internal tool called Cicada — to move and process large volumes of cross-factory, cross-system data. The position handles both real-time and batch Big Data workloads using the Hadoop ecosystem and also involves maintaining Tableau dashboards. Mandarin Chinese fluency is a hard requirement.
Mid level · 3+ years · Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 15 people in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 5–25
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,159 (middle half $122,005–$172,951).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 12, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
Mandarin Chinese fluency (native speaking and reading) is listed as a hard requirement in the Skills/Qualifications section — this is an unusual language gate not representable as a technology skill.
Flink is listed alongside Spark in a single 'and/or' requirement; it is captured as an alternative to Spark rather than a separate skill.
Tableau appears both in the core responsibilities (10% of time on dashboards) and in the Plus/Desired section. It is marked preferred because the Plus/Desired section is the authoritative placement for the explicit skill call-out; the dashboard responsibility is a duty, not a separate skill gate.
GitLab and JIRA are listed together under Plus/Desired and are treated as interchangeable preferred tools rather than separate requirements.
The role is classified as data pipeline/warehouse building (15-1243) rather than BI/reporting (15-2031) given the heavy ETL, Big Data platform, and data warehouse modeling emphasis; however, the Tableau dashboard responsibility introduces some ambiguity.
The degree requirement states a Bachelor's in a relevant field with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
No compensation range is provided in the posting.
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