Senior Data Engineer — AI-Scale Systems (Remote, Contract)

Bespoke Labs; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 119,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hyper-competitive hourly rate

Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects

Job summary

A leading AI research lab is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Engineer for a high-impact contract role. You will architect and develop systems for AI model training using your extensive data engineering experience with platforms such as Python and Spark. Ideal candidates will have a proven track record of managing production data setups within top-tier enterprises and possess a deep understanding of data architecture and processing at scale. This is a remote contract position requiring full-time commitment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering.
• Demonstrated Senior/Staff-level ownership of data platforms.
• Background at Tier-1 enterprises is essential.

Responsibilities

• Design the data architecture for large-scale AI model training.
• Develop custom ingestion logic and transformation scripts.
• Optimize processing workloads to meet throughput targets.
• Ensure data quality and reliability throughout the pipeline.
• Act as technical authority on distributed systems and cloud structures.

Skills

Data Engineering expertise

Python/Scala proficiency

Kafka knowledge

Data architecture design

High-throughput processing

Reliability engineering

Tools

Apache Spark

Airflow

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Apache Iceberg

Delta Lake

Job description

A leading AI research lab is seeking a Senior/Staff Data Engineer for a high-impact contract role. You will architect and develop systems for AI model training using your extensive data engineering experience with platforms such as Python and Spark. Ideal candidates will have a proven track record of managing production data setups within top-tier enterprises and possess a deep understanding of data architecture and processing at scale. This is a remote contract position requiring full-time commitment.