Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Empowers Staffing Inc is seeking an AI Data Engineer to design and build production-grade data pipelines that power machine learning systems. This role focuses on creating scalable ingestion, transformation, and feature engineering workflows that support model training, evaluation, and real-time inference.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable data pipelines for ML workflows
- Develop feature engineering and data preparation processes
- Implement batch and real-time data ingestion systems
- Ensure data quality, validation, and monitoring
- Collaborate with ML engineers to support model training and deployment
- Integrate pipelines with orchestration tools (Airflow or similar)
- Optimize pipeline performance and cloud cost efficiency
- Maintain documentation and version control of data workflows
Skills
- 4+ years of experience in Data Engineering
- Strong Python and SQL skills
- Experience building data pipelines for ML or analytics systems
- Hands-on experience with Spark, Databricks, or similar distributed processing frameworks
- Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow or similar)
- Experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments
- Familiarity with data quality validation and monitoring frameworks
- Understanding of feature engineering and model data lifecycle
- Experience with streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub)
- Experience supporting model deployment and MLOps workflows
- Experience with feature stores or vector databases
- Familiarity with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch)
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