Machine Learning Data Engineer (AI)

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $80,000–$100,000 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

• Build and operate large-scale data systems supporting AI training and evaluation pipelines.
• Develop ingestion and transformation workflows for diverse data modalities.
• Ensure data quality, lineage, versioning, reproducibility, and efficient delivery to training jobs.
• Operate petabyte-scale storage and pipeline systems for high-throughput workloads.
• Support accelerator-based model training through efficient data loading.
• Collaborate cross-functionally while applying testing, CI/CD, and code review practices.

Requirements

• 6+ years of data engineering experience, including significant work with ML or AI workloads.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong Python skills and proficiency in at least one JVM or systems language.
• Deep experience with Spark, Ray, or Beam.
• Experience with distributed systems, data modeling, storage formats, dataset versioning, lineage, and reproducibility.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen, Green Card holder, EAD holder, or H-1B transfer candidate.

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 and regulated data systems.
• Open-source contributions to data infrastructure projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• Remote work within the United States.
• Career growth opportunities within an established organization.
• Equal employment opportunity and a workplace free from harassment and discrimination.