Big Data Development Engineer Intern (AI/Data Governance)

Location: Hong Kong SAR; 5 days per week on-site

Company

hirify.global is a cryptocurrency exchange and digital financial platform providing trading, payments, wealth management, custody, institutional services, and Web3 products.

What you will do

• Research AI and data governance approaches, including metadata and lineage platforms, semantic layers, data quality frameworks, and natural-language metric querying.
• Build AI-assisted data model review capabilities for naming, warehouse layering, duplicate detection, asset value analysis, and refactoring recommendations.
• Extract and standardize metric definitions from SQL, lineage, and documentation while detecting conflicting or redundant metric implementations.
• Automate data quality rules, anomaly detection, lineage-based root cause analysis, alert grading, and remediation recommendations.
• Deliver at least one end-to-end MVP on a real data domain, measure its results, and iterate based on findings.
• Document solution designs and evaluation methods, present results to data stakeholders, and create reusable frameworks.

Requirements

• Undergraduate or graduate student in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field.
• Solid SQL and Python skills, with knowledge of dimensional modeling, layered data warehouse architecture, metadata, and data lineage.
• Hands-on experience developing LLM applications using prompt engineering, RAG, or agent and tool-calling frameworks, with the ability to evaluate system effectiveness.
• Structured problem-solving skills, including defining measurable success criteria for ambiguous data governance problems.
• Minimum 3-month internship commitment and availability for 5 days per week on-site in Hong Kong SAR.
• Fluent Mandarin is required. Ability to read technical materials in English and clear written communication skills are required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Spark, Flink, Hive, or StarRocks.
• Experience with DataHub, OpenMetadata, Atlas, dbt, Great Expectations, Deequ, or metric and semantic-layer tools.
• Fluent English.

Culture & Benefits

• Study Growth Fund supporting professional development and continuous learning.
• Regular team-building activities, workshops, and internal events.
• Collaboration with an international team.
• Career advancement and internal mobility opportunities.