Senior Data Engineer (AI/ML)

Location: Century City, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Orange County, Palo Alto, San Francisco, or Washington, D.C., United States

Annual compensation: $150,000–$200,000, depending on qualifications and operational considerations.

Company

hirify.global is a global law firm advising clients on significant transactions and disputes.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate scalable enterprise data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouse environments across on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Develop and orchestrate automated ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and unstructured data, including monitoring, validation, error handling, lineage, and metadata.
• Prepare model-ready datasets and reusable data products for AI/ML training, fine-tuning, inference, feature stores, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented workflows.
• Administer relational databases, automate backups and integrity checks, troubleshoot performance issues, and manage high availability and disaster recovery.
• Develop optimized queries, semantic models, dashboards, and reports using BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
• Collaborate with technical and business teams, report to senior management, and mentor data engineers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building and supporting enterprise data platforms, pipelines, and application databases.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency with SQL and at least one data-engineering programming or scripting language, such as Python.
• Hands-on experience with data warehousing, data lakes or lakehouse architectures, ETL/ELT pipelines, and orchestration tools.
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, or Databricks, plus distributed processing frameworks such as Apache Spark.
• Experience preparing data for AI/ML and familiarity with feature stores, vector databases, embedding/RAG pipelines, automation, and DevOps, MLOps, or CI/CD practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Health care benefits and retirement benefits.
• Paid sick time and vacation time.
• Parental leave and basic life insurance.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Discretionary, performance-based bonuses.