AI Data Engineer

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $100,000–$150,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Design and operate large-scale data pipelines for AI training, evaluation, and continual improvement.
• Build ingestion, cleaning, deduplication, filtering, and quality assurance systems for text, image, audio, video, and structured data.
• Develop dataset versioning, lineage, provenance, evaluation, and contamination-control systems for reproducible ML workflows.
• Build high-throughput data loading and storage architectures that balance GPU utilization, cost, throughput, and latency.
• Implement labeling, active learning, human-in-the-loop, privacy, redaction, and consent-enforcement workflows.
• Collaborate with ML researchers and engineers while driving observability, documentation, and operational improvements across data systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10+ years of data engineering experience, including significant work supporting ML or AI workloads.
• Strong Python proficiency and proficiency in at least one JVM or systems language.
• Deep experience with Spark, Ray, or Beam, plus distributed systems, data modeling, and storage formats.
• Hands-on experience operating petabyte-scale storage and pipeline systems, including ML dataset versioning, lineage, and reproducibility.
• Strong software engineering practices, including testing, CI/CD, code review, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale multimodal datasets and frontier model training pipelines.
• Familiarity with data quality tooling and dataset evaluation methodology.
• Exposure to privacy-preserving systems and regulated data handling.
• Open-source contributions to data infrastructure projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W2 employment.
• Fully remote work within the United States.
• Career growth opportunities within an established technology consulting and software development organization.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume for consideration.
• U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply.
• New H-1B visa petition sponsorship is not available.