AI Data Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies • Troy, MI

3d • $80,000 - $100,000 • Remote

About The Position

We are seeking an AI Data Engineer to build and operate the large-scale data systems that power modern AI training and evaluation pipelines. The role combines deep data engineering expertise with a strong understanding of AI workloads, focusing on ingestion, transformation, quality assurance, lineage, and high-throughput delivery of data to training jobs across diverse modalities. The ideal candidate has experience operating petabyte-scale data systems, strong software engineering fundamentals, and clear understanding of how data infrastructure choices propagate into model quality and training efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Six or more years of data engineering experience, with significant work supporting ML or AI workloads.
• Strong proficiency in Python and at least one JVM or systems language.
• Deep experience with modern data processing frameworks such as Spark, Ray, or Beam.
• Hands-on experience operating petabyte-scale storage and pipeline systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, and storage formats.
• Experience with dataset versioning, lineage, and reproducibility for ML workflows.
• Familiarity with high-throughput data loading for accelerator-based training.
• Strong software engineering practices including testing, CI/CD, and code review.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with multimodal datasets at large scale.
• Familiarity with data quality tooling and dataset evaluation methodology.
• Exposure to privacy-preserving data systems and regulated data handling.
• Open-source contributions to data infrastructure projects.
• Experience supporting frontier model training pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate large-scale data systems for AI training and evaluation pipelines.
• Focus on data ingestion, transformation, quality assurance, lineage, and high-throughput delivery.
• Manage petabyte-scale data systems.
• Ensure data infrastructure choices support model quality and training efficiency.
• Implement dataset versioning, lineage, and reproducibility for ML workflows.
• Support high-throughput data loading for accelerator-based training.
• Apply strong software engineering practices including testing, CI/CD, and code review.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior