Data Engineer

Akiva Ai, Llc; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with generous company match

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Short-Term Disability Insurance

Long-Term Disability Insurance

Paid Time Off

Profit Sharing

Job summary

AKIVA is a data engineering firm seeking a candidate to design and build the data infrastructure powering AKIVA AI systems. You will architect pipelines that move terabytes reliably, enable ML at scale, and meet enterprise governance requirements.

You will build batch and streaming data pipelines, design data lake/warehouse schemas, implement data quality and lineage controls, and collaborate with ML engineers on feature retrieval and cost/performance optimization of cloud data platforms.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in data engineering on modern stacks.
• Strong SQL and Python; experience with at least one orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect).
• Production experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) or lakehouses (Databricks, Iceberg).
• Solid understanding of data modeling and pipeline reliability.

Responsibilities

• Build batch and streaming data pipelines that feed training, evaluation, and inference systems.
• Design schemas and storage layers (data lake, warehouse, vector stores) for ML workloads.
• Implement data quality, lineage, and governance controls.
• Partner with ML engineers on feature engineering and retrieval pipelines.
• Optimize cost and performance of cloud data platforms.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Python

Orchestrators

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Databricks

Iceberg

Pinecone

Weaviate

pgvector

Qdrant

Kafka

Kinesis

Pulsar

Job description

AKIVA is an AI-native engineering firm specializing in enterprise services, domain-specific solutions, and high-performance infrastructure from strategy through deployment. We build innovative systems that drive measurable results for commercial enterprises and government agencies. AKIVA is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).

Position Overview

Design and build the data infrastructure powering AKIVA AI systems. Architect pipelines that move terabytes reliably, enable ML at scale, and meet enterprise governance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Build batch and streaming data pipelines that feed training, evaluation, and inference systems
• Design schemas and storage layers (data lake, warehouse, vector stores) for ML workloads
• Implement data quality, lineage, and governance controls
• Partner with ML engineers on feature engineering and retrieval pipelines
• Optimize cost and performance of cloud data platforms

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years in data engineering on modern stacks
• Strong SQL and Python; experience with at least one orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)
• Production experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) or lakehouses (Databricks, Iceberg)
• Solid understanding of data modeling and pipeline reliability

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building retrieval pipelines for RAG systems
• Vector database experience (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Qdrant)
• Streaming experience (Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar)

What AKIVA Offers

• Professional development and skill-building opportunities
• Supportive management team with Veteran-owned company values
• Opportunity to work on impactful client engagements
• Long-term contract engagement with potential for extension
• AI productivity tools and training provided at no cost to employees
• 401(k) with generous company match
• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Profit Sharing

AKIVA is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

AKIVA is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical disability, marital status, military and Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity among our teammates is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people within a qualified candidate pool.

AKIVA is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).