Data Engineer

Egreenservices; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 71,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Job summary

KFC in Grand Rapids, MI is seeking a mid-level Data Engineer to own production-grade Hugging Face code and contribute to the Grand Rapids platform. You will engage in incident postmortems, implement incremental improvements, and optimize caching to handle launch spikes on existing hardware.

The role emphasizes trust-based ownership, mentorship of teammates, and delivering reliable data engineering solutions with a clear mid-level bar. Competitive compensation is provided with full benefits.

Qualifications

• Production-grade Hugging Face code experience.
• Proven data engineering experience near Grand Rapids, MI.
• Ability to mentor teammates in a mid-level role.

Responsibilities

• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems.
• Ship incremental improvements to KFC's Grand Rapids platform on a regular cadence.
• Tune RAG caching for the Grand Rapids launch on the same hardware.
• Own the customer-centric Team Leadership subsystem relied on by the team.
• Hunt down latency spikes and diagnose performance issues.
• Decide when to buy versus build Team Leadership for KFC's Grand Rapids stack.

Skills

Hugging Face

Data Engineering

Tools

Python

Job description

If you love writing clean, performant Hugging Face code that runs in production, this contract role in Grand Rapids, MI was made for you. What sets the offer apart is trust — $71,000 - $93,000 and contract hours are nice, but the technology ownership is the headline.

Key Responsibilities

• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Ship incremental improvements to KFC's Grand Rapids platform on a regular cadence
• Tune RAG caching so KFC survives the Grand Rapids launch spike on the same hardware
• Own the customer-centric Team Leadership subsystem that the rest of KFC quietly depends on
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at KFC can explain
• Decide when to buy Team Leadership versus build it for KFC's Grand Rapids, MI stack

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated wins in technology work somewhere near Grand Rapids, MI
• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a contract project
• Comfort being measured against a clear mid-level bar
• The patience to mentor without taking over the keyboard

KFC took everything frustrating about technology and rebuilt it from scratch in Grand Rapids, MI, with trust-based attention to Relationship Building. Nobody at KFC will hover over your shoulder; we hand you the keys and trust you to drive.

You get $71,000 - $93,000, a growth runway, a mentor, full benefits, and a flexible Grand Rapids, MI setup, no fine print, no catch.

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