Senior AI Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines & LLMs

Aquent; Redmond; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AQUENT is seeking a hands-on engineer to join a pioneering AI team, shaping intelligent systems and data experiences on a global scale. You will design and operate data generation, ETL, and distributed processing workflows in the cloud, with a focus on LLMs and scalable backend services.

Join a collaborative team that values clear documentation and automated tests, delivering reliable foundations for products used by billions of users. Flexible work options and a supportive culture are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software or data engineering experience.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Spring Boot, or .NET.
• Backend programming and systems engineering for maintainable services, APIs, and tests.
• Experience with data generation, ETL, and distributed data-processing in the cloud.
• Understanding of LLMs, prompting, evaluation and limitations.
• Knowledge of orchestration, concurrency, and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve synthetic data-generation systems with scalable workflows.
• Build and operate scalable pipelines and orchestration workflows with concurrency and resilience.
• Design data models, storage approaches, and retrieval patterns for large data volumes.
• Develop validation frameworks to define quality criteria and automate checks.
• Apply cloud engineering practices to build, deploy, monitor, and support systems.
• Collaborate, document, and create automated tests to support ownership.

Skills

Python

Spring Boot

.NET

APIs

Automated tests

Data engineering

LLMs

Tools

Apache Spark

Kafka

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Data lakes

Cloud platforms

Job description

AQUENT is seeking a hands-on engineer to join a pioneering AI team, shaping intelligent systems and data experiences on a global scale. You will design and operate data generation, ETL, and distributed processing workflows in the cloud, with a focus on LLMs and scalable backend services.

Join a collaborative team that values clear documentation and automated tests, delivering reliable foundations for products used by billions of users. Flexible work options and a supportive culture are offered.