AI Data Engineer

XpertDirect; España; Remote; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

XpertDirect, Paris-based and offering remote EU opportunities, seeks an AI Data Engineer to design and operate data ingestion, transformation, and processing infrastructure for production AI systems, enterprise search, and RAG apps.

You'll work in a data engineering role within an AI environment, turning complex enterprise information into reliable, searchable data. Relevant experience with data pipelines and AI-oriented data infrastructure is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, Backend Engineering, or a similar role.
• Experience building and operating production data pipelines.
• Familiarity with vector databases, search infrastructure, or data pipelines supporting AI applications.

Skills

Data Engineering

Production pipelines

AI data infrastructure

Tools

Spark

Kafka

dbt

Terraform

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Embeddings/semantic search

Document ingestion

Data-quality frameworks

Unstructured data handling

Job description

Remote — European Union. Company based in Paris, France.

Our client, a growing Enterprise AI company based in Paris, is looking for an AI Data Engineer to build the ingestion, transformation, and data-processing infrastructure behind production AI, enterprise search, and RAG applications.

This is primarily a Data Engineering role in an AI environment. You don't need to be an LLM specialist—we're looking for strong engineers who understand how to turn complex enterprise information into reliable, searchable, production-ready data.

Core Skills

• 3+ years in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, Backend Engineering, or a similar role
• Experience building and operating production data pipelines
• Familiarity with vector databases, search infrastructure, or data pipelines supporting AI applications

Nice to Have

• Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
• Embeddings and semantic search
• Document ingestion and processing
• Spark
• Kafka
• dbt
• Terraform
• Data-quality frameworks
• Experience working with unstructured enterprise data