Data Engineer Strategic Advantage Downey, CA

Jamdanceacademy; Downey (CA); On-site; USD 106,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Advantage in Downey, CA seeks a Data Engineer who can passionately argue for professionalism and commit to team decisions. The role blends a $106,000 - $164,000 pay with autonomy to shape Plotly work and a growing team.

Key responsibilities include building internal tooling, implementing secure auth, and advancing MLOps and backend services. Expect collaboration with a team that values mentorship and strong outcomes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks.
• Experience with NLP and RAG concepts in production.
• Hands-on Generative AI projects.
• Familiarity with contract schedules and team norms.

Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Empathy.
• Carry the NLP platform work for CA expansion.
• Refactor the technology module Strategic Advantage has been afraid to touch.
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using MLOps and professionalism.

Skills

NLP & RAG

Outcome ownership

Generative AI projects

Contract project familiarity

Tools

MLOps

Looker

Job description

Strategic Advantage needs a Data Engineer in CA who can argue passionately about Professionalism, then commit to whatever the team decides. This role blends $106,000 - $164,000 pay with the autonomy to shape Plotly work and a team that grows together.

Key Responsibilities

• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Empathy
• Carry the Natural Language Processing platform work that makes Strategic Advantage's next CA expansion boring
• Refactor the technology module Strategic Advantage has been afraid to touch
• Drive adoption of best practices in testing, security, and observability
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using MLOps and Professionalism

What You'll Bring

• Calm under the trust-the-team chaos a mid-level role tends to generate
• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a contract project
• Equal parts Natural Language Processing depth and RAG curiosity
• Hands-on familiarity with RAG, sharpened by Generative AI side projects
• 4+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks
• Working familiarity with contract schedules and team norms at Strategic Advantage

Strategic Advantage blends RAG and Looker into technology products that feel, in the outcome-focused words of its Downey, CA founders, inevitable. Honest feedback is a gift here, and we try to wrap it kindly before we hand it over.

Compensation lands at $106,000 - $164,000, mentorship is built in, and the path from here to senior technology work is mapped, not vague.

Our Downey team is currently shortlisting candidates for this position.