UK Data Engineer for AI Research Project

Dorado; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 83,000 - 120,000; 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 data pipelines, working alongside domain experts to deliver robust data assets during the project window.

The engagement runs 14 September to 10 October 2026, at 40 hours per week, with UK business-hours rhythm. Applicants must be based in the United Kingdom and have the right to work in the UK.

Qualifications

• Hands-on data engineering with production pipelines.
• Experience with ETL/ELT, orchestration and data warehousing.
• Strong SQL and Python, plus cloud data tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and own production data pipelines.
• Collaborate with domain experts to map data needs.
• Document and structure work; deliver datasets for model training.

Skills

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT

Data warehousing

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

dbt

Cloud platforms

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 data pipelines, working alongside domain experts to deliver robust data assets during the project window.

The engagement runs 14 September to 10 October 2026, at 40 hours per week, with UK business-hours rhythm. Applicants must be based in the United Kingdom and have the right to work in the UK.