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# Data Engineering Specialist - AI

- **Company:** Bright Vision Technologies
- **Location:** Durham, NC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Systems, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Python (Programming Language), Data Processing, Apache Spark, Integration Frameworks, Free and Open-Source Software
- **Published:** August 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us3d99ddafac385ee86f42c348fe1cb86b

## About the Role

* 6+ 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., * 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.

## Description

We are seeking an Data Engineering Specialist - AI 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.


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