Early Career Consult Program - Associate Data Engineer (AI)

Location: Dallas (USDALFRI) Frisco AI HUB, United States; partially remote, with work at the Frisco office required 5 days per week

Salary: $77,000 per year, plus eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus and benefits.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, manages, and modernizes mission-critical technology systems for clients and communities.

What you will do

• Design and scale Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines that transform unstructured IT logs and documentation into optimized vector embeddings.
• Maintain the health and performance of vector databases such as Pinecone, Milvus, and Weaviate, targeting sub-second retrieval for agentic reasoning loops.
• Build knowledge graphs and semantic layers that provide context for AI agents navigating complex infrastructure problems.
• Develop automated data guardrails to detect noise, bias, and personally identifiable information before data reaches models.
• Identify and resolve data quality issues at their source, then build, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure.

Requirements

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction now and in the future; employment visa sponsorship is not available.
• Expertise in data mining, data storage, and Extract-Transform-Load processes.
• Experience developing data pipelines and using tooling such as Glue, Databricks, Synapse, or Dataproc.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL, DB2, and MongoDB.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining strong attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical colleagues and translate business needs into technical requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience working as a Data Engineer or in cloud modernization.
• Experience in data modelling and creating conceptual models of data relationships and business use.
• Professional certification, such as Open Certified Technical Specialist with Data Engineering Specialization.
• Cloud certification such as AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty, Elastic Certified Engineer, Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, or Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate.
• Understanding of social coding and integrated development environments, such as GitHub and Visual Studio.
• Degree in a scientific discipline such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical and dental coverage, disability and retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off.
• Access to learning programs and certifications from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and other providers.
• Growth opportunities through hands-on experience, professional development, and certification across four major platforms.
• Inclusive, diverse, customer-focused environment with employee inclusion networks and volunteering opportunities.
• Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Hiring process

• If applying through an employee referral, select “Employee Referral” and enter the referring employee’s hirify.global email address when asked how the application was found.