Pipeline Data Engineer for AI Lab - UK Short-Term Project

Mercor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is recruiting UK-based Data Engineers for a short, intensive project with a globally leading AI lab. You will build and own production-grade data pipelines using SQL and Python, handling ETL/ELT, orchestration, streaming, and warehousing across Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks on AWS/GCP/Azure.

Roles vary between hands-on delivery and documenting/structuring work. The project runs 14 September to 10 October 2026, with UK business-hours coordination and no

Qualifications

• Hands-on data engineers who build and own pipelines in production.
• Strong SQL and Python experience.
• Experience with ETL/ELT, orchestration, streaming, and data warehousing.

Responsibilities

• Build and own end-to-end data pipelines in production.
• Collaborate with experts and document data architecture and workflows.

Skills

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

dbt

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks

Job description

Mercor is recruiting UK-based Data Engineers for a short, intensive project with a globally leading AI lab. You will build and own production-grade data pipelines using SQL and Python, handling ETL/ELT, orchestration, streaming, and warehousing across Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks on AWS/GCP/Azure.

Roles vary between hands-on delivery and documenting/structuring work. The project runs 14 September to 10 October 2026, with UK business-hours coordination and no