ML Data Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies
Herndon, VA, United States
19 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
6 years minimum
Compensation
$100,000.0 - $150,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Big Data Code Review Continuous Integration Data Cleansing Data Deduplication Information Engineering Data Infrastructure Extract Transform Load (ETL) Data Systems Distributed Systems Document-Oriented Databases
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Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Python (Programming Language) Open Source Technology Software Engineering Management of Software Versions Data Processing Apache Spark Caching Storage Technologies Information Technology Integration Frameworks Free and Open-Source Software Machine Learning Operations Data Pipelines

Job description

We are seeking an ML 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., * Design and operate large-scale data pipelines supporting AI training, evaluation, and continual improvement workflows.

  • Build ingestion systems for diverse modalities including text, image, audio, video, and structured signals.
  • Implement data cleaning, deduplication, filtering, and quality assurance at petabyte scale.
  • Develop dataset versioning, lineage, and provenance tracking systems suitable for reproducible training.
  • Build high-throughput data loading systems that maximize GPU utilization during training.
  • Implement labeling workflows, active learning pipelines, and human-in-the-loop data improvement systems.
  • Design storage architectures balancing cost, throughput, and latency across data tiers.
  • Build evaluation dataset construction pipelines with strict integrity and contamination controls.
  • Implement data privacy, redaction, and consent enforcement throughout the pipeline.
  • Collaborate with ML researchers and engineers to align data systems with model development needs.
  • Drive observability of data quality, drift, and pipeline health across the AI data estate.
  • Optimize cost and performance through compression, format selection, and caching strategies.
  • Document data systems, schemas, and operational procedures for broad internal use.
  • Stay current with AI data infrastructure research and emerging open-source tools.

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., * 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.

About the company

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