AI Data Engineer

Responsibilities

AI Data Architecture & Platform Support

Architect and optimize high-throughput data pipelines and unstructured data processing frameworks to directly power the enterprise AI Foundation Platform.
Co-own the vector infrastructure alongside the AI Engineer Specialist, ensuring optimized embedding storage, indexing strategies, and fast vector search retrieval.
Build automated ETL/ELT pipelines capable of transforming raw enterprise data into AI-ready formats (chunking, metadata tagging, and cleaning).

Data Governance, Metadata & Cataloging

Implement metadata pipelines for comprehensive data catalog and data dictionary services, including schema capture, lineage tracking, and audit logging.
Enforce data governance, access controls, and privacy compliance across all data stores used for training, fine-tuning, and RAG retrieval.
Design and maintain operational data lineage to ensure transparency and auditability of data flowing into production AI models.

Advanced AI Component Integration

Develop and tune robust data ingestion pipelines for OCR, NLP processing, recommendation systems, and multi-modal AI inputs.
Optimize data tiering and caching strategies to reduce latency and infrastructure costs for live enterprise AI workloads.
Build secure, scalable data connectors linking legacy enterprise databases with modern LLM frameworks and autonomous agents.

Collaboration & Data Excellence

Partner directly with the AI Engineer Specialist to ensure seamless data delivery for real-world, high-concurrency production deployments.
Bridge traditional data engineering practices with modern MLOps, setting up automated data validation, quality checking, and drift detection at the data layer.
Provide data-level expertise during architecture reviews, ensuring scalable data design patterns across the entire AI project lifecycle.

Key Impacts

Ensure high-quality, AI-ready data ingestion at scale, dramatically reducing the time-to-market for enterprise AI assets.
Establish a secure and compliant data foundation that guarantees enterprise data privacy during AI model interactions.
Eliminate data bottlenecks in real-world production environments, ensuring sub-second latency for enterprise RAG and search systems.
Transition traditional data warehouses and lakes into future-ready, graph- and vector-enabled AI data infrastructure.

Education & Experience

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related technical field.
5+ years of experience in heavy-duty Data Engineering, Big Data, or Distributed Systems, with strong production experience in an AI/ML context.
Proven track record of building large-scale data infrastructure supporting live, mission-critical applications.

Technical & AI Data Framework Expertise

Deep experience in Python and SQL, alongside modern big data tools (e.g., Spark, Kafka, or cloud equivalents).
Hands-on expertise in Vector Databases and unstructured data processing.
Strong understanding of data chunking strategies, text extraction (OCR/NLP pipelines), and metadata orchestration.
Familiarity with cloud data platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) including managed data lakes, data warehouses, and cloud-native security/encryption.
Real-world experience implementing data catalogs, schema evolution, and automated data quality monitoring.

Leadership & Soft Skills

Excellent technical communication skills to align data pipeline designs with AI model engineering requirements.
Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset, comfortable handling noisy, unstructured enterprise data under tight deadlines.
Good verbal and written English communication skills for vendor engagement and cross-functional team collaboration.