UK Data Engineer for Frontier AI Model Training

Mercor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 13,225,000 - 19,837,000; 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 using SQL and Python, collaborating with experts across domains to produce deliverables that train frontier AI models.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering with a focus on ETL/ELT, orchestration, streaming and data warehousing, leveraging Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks on AWS/GCP/Azure.

Qualifications

• Core stack: SQL and Python with hands-on delivery across ETL/ELT, orchestration, streaming and warehousing.
• Experience deploying data pipelines in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and own production data pipelines end-to-end.
• Collaborate with domain experts to document and structure work for AI model training.
• Ensure data quality, monitoring, and reliability of pipelines.

Skills

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT

Orchestration

Streaming

Data Warehousing

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 using SQL and Python, collaborating with experts across domains to produce deliverables that train frontier AI models.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering with a focus on ETL/ELT, orchestration, streaming and data warehousing, leveraging Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks on AWS/GCP/Azure.