AI/ML Data Engineer: Build Scalable Data Pipelines

Tebra; United States; On-site; USD 128,000 - 145,200; Full time

Job summary

Tebra is seeking a Data Engineer focused on AI/ML to build and optimize the data infrastructure powering our intelligent features. You will partner with ML engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to transform healthcare data into high-quality datasets and real-time features for ML models.

This hands-on role covers scalable data pipelines, data quality, and governance, using modern data platforms.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering or a related field.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production data pipelines supporting analytics, reporting, or machine learning workloads.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL with experience developing production-quality data pipelines.
• Experience with modern data processing technologies such as Spark, Airflow, Kafka, or similar distributed data platforms.
• Experience working with cloud-based data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Delta Lake, or equivalent lakehouse technologies.
• Understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and data governance best practices.
• Familiarity with machine learning data workflows, including training datasets, feature engineering, and data quality concepts.
• Experience deploying and supporting production data pipelines with monitoring, testing, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering and product teams.
• Excellent communication skills and a desire to continuously learn new technologies and engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for feature extraction, training data generation, and model monitoring.
• Develop and enhance data systems that support analytics and machine learning workloads, including data lakehouse and feature store technologies.
• Monitor production data pipelines, identify data quality issues or pipeline failures, and implement improvements to ensure reliability and freshness.
• Participate in engineering design discussions and contribute to technical decisions around data architecture and pipeline implementation.
• Build reusable data engineering components, including automated data quality checks, schema validation, and testing frameworks.
• Translate business requirements into scalable data solutions that enable analytics and machine learning use cases.
• Optimize SQL queries, Spark workloads, and data processing pipelines to improve performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with ML Engineers and cross-functional partners to support MLOps best practices, including data versioning, lineage, and reproducibility.
• Break down technical work into manageable tasks and deliver high-quality solutions within an agile team.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Airflow

Kafka

CI/CD

Data modeling

Data governance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Delta Lake

Job description

Tebra is seeking a Data Engineer focused on AI/ML to build and optimize the data infrastructure powering our intelligent features. You will partner with ML engineers, data scientists, and software engineers to transform healthcare data into high-quality datasets and real-time features for ML models.

This hands-on role covers scalable data pipelines, data quality, and governance, using modern data platforms.