AI Data Pipelines & ML Infrastructure Engineer

Sierra Nevada Corporation; Englewood (CO); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

401(k) with 150% match up to 6%

Life insurance

3 weeks paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Sierra Nevada Corporation is seeking a Data Engineer II to lead the design and optimization of data pipelines and transformations feeding AI/ML systems across the platform. You will collaborate with AI/LLM Platform teams and other engineers to deliver secure, scalable data solutions and mentorship to junior engineers.

You will implement best practices for data processing, ensure governance and security compliance, and contribute to model serving infrastructure with feature stores and data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Data Eng, or related field.
• 2+ years in data engineering or related role.
• Higher degree may substitute for experience.
• No degree? 6+ years of related experience required.
• Proficient in SQL and ETL/orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt, Prefect).
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP cloud platforms.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Working SQL knowledge with relational databases.
• Experience with AWS services: S3, Redshift, Glue.
• Experience building data pipelines and architectures.
• Ability to perform root cause analysis on data.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design and development of data pipelines feeding AI/ML systems.
• Collaborate with AI/LLM Platform and engineering teams on data and model requirements.
• Mentor junior data engineers.
• Enforce best practices for data engineering processes.
• Implement data integration, data management, and data quality solutions including experiment tracking and model registry systems.
• Test, debug, and optimize data pipelines and model serving infra.
• Ensure data security and compliance with standards (CMMC, SNC).
• Maintain documentation for data processes.
• Operate feature stores and model serving infra for real-time and batch inference.
• Manage graph and relational data stores for AI apps.
• Monitor pipeline health and participate in on-call rotation for data infra.

Skills

SQL

ETL orchestration

Airflow

dbt

Prefect

AWS

Azure

GCP

Python

Spark

ML lifecycle tools

Kubernetes

Data governance

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Prefect

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

S3

Redshift

Glue

MLflow

Weights & Biases

Kubeflow

Job description

Sierra Nevada Corporation is seeking a Data Engineer II to lead the design and optimization of data pipelines and transformations feeding AI/ML systems across the platform. You will collaborate with AI/LLM Platform teams and other engineers to deliver secure, scalable data solutions and mentorship to junior engineers.

You will implement best practices for data processing, ensure governance and security compliance, and contribute to model serving infrastructure with feature stores and data