Senior Data Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Austin, Texas; attendance at the Austin Technical Center at least three times per week is required.

Salary: $125,000–$168,650 base compensation annually, plus bonus potential and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops automotive products and services with a focus on safer, more sustainable, and more equitable mobility.

What you will do

• Build and support data products for analytics, AI, reporting, and operational decision-making.
• Design and develop scalable pipelines that ingest, transform, curate, and publish high-volume operational data.
• Create trusted, reusable aftersales datasets and optimize distributed workloads for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Implement data quality, governance, observability, monitoring, CI/CD, and automation capabilities.
• Build governed frameworks for operationalizing SQL and Python solutions at scale.
• Partner with stakeholders, analysts, architects, and engineers; mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a related discipline.
• Expert-level SQL skills and strong software engineering skills in Python or Java.
• Experience building production-grade data pipelines, distributed data processing solutions, and large-scale workloads.
• Experience with Databricks or similar platforms, cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, or Event Hubs.
• Must work in the hybrid Austin arrangement and must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice to have

• Experience creating trusted, scalable data products used by analysts and business users.
• Ability to balance speed, scalability, reliability, and cost as data products grow.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options.
• Retirement savings plan, life insurance, and sickness and accident benefits.
• Paid vacation and holidays, tuition assistance, and employee assistance programs.
• GM vehicle discounts and performance-based bonus potential.

Hiring process

• Role-related assessments and/or pre-employment screening may be required where applicable.