Machine Learning Data Engineer (LLM & Generative AI)

Felix; New York (NY); Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Initial stock options grant

Annual performance bonus

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Fully remote now, future hybrid

Health, dental, and vision plans

401(k) with employer matching

Job summary

Félix is seeking a highly technical Machine Learning Data Engineer to build foundational data infrastructure powering our LLMs and autonomous AI agents. You will orchestrate real-time telemetry and design pipelines to train and refine models with high-quality, diverse data.

Responsibilities include scalable automated pipelines, realistic data generation, and strong DevOps collaboration to enable CI/CD for model updates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, or MLOps.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and advanced SQL.
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) and open-source models (Hugging Face, Llama) and orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen).
• Proven experience with prompt engineering and synthetic data generation/validation.
• Strong experience with workflow orchestration tools.
• Experience with scalable cloud infrastructure (GCP) and distributed data processing frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable automated data pipelines for LLM fine-tuning (SFT, RLHF, DPO).
• Develop telemetry, sampling systems to ingest real-time production data and benchmark LLMs/agents.
• Scale synthetic data generation workflows to augment training data and cover edge cases.
• Implement automated data quality checks, deduplication, and toxicity filtering for model training data.
• Collaborate with ML researchers and DevOps to CI/CD data pipelines for model updates.
• Manage data flows into vector databases to support Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for agentic workflows.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLM APIs

Open-source models

LangChain

Synthetic data

Data orchestration

GCP

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/DS/Engineering

Tools

Hugging Face

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

Job description

About Us

At Félix, we are building the indispensable financial companion for Latinos in the US. We combine an AI-powered, conversational-first interface with real-time financial infrastructure to make cross-border money movement as easy as sending a text. Starting with fast, affordable remittances powered by AI and crypto rails, we are expanding into credit, savings, and wallet services to support the complete immigrant financial journey. Our ambition is to deliver a white-glove financial experience with the simplicity of a conversation to a community the traditional financial system has historically overlooked.

We are a hyper-growth Series C company, backed by over $300 million in funding from top-tier global investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, QED, Castle Island, Switch Ventures, HTwenty, Monashees, General Catalyst Customer Value Fund. This isn't just about the numbers; it's a testament to the trust our investors have in our vision and our team. Additionally, Félix was selected as an “Endeavor Entrepreneur” and was a recipient of the CrossTech Fintech Startups Award.

Joining Félix means you will be part of a team building a legacy, a company that will outlive us all. This is a rare opportunity to apply your skills to a deeply meaningful mission—serving a community that has been underserved for too long because we are obsessed with our customers. We get things done with urgency and focus, driven by extreme ownership over our impact. We collaborate without ego, fostering radical transparency and fierce loyalty so we can grow together. Because we aim for insanely great rather than just good enough, we stay insatiably curious—always experimenting, building the future today, and delivering a product that truly makes our users' lives better.

About the Role

We are seeking an innovative and highly technical Machine Learning Data Engineer to build the foundational data infrastructure that powers our Large Language Models (LLMs) and autonomous AI agents. In this role, you will sit at the bleeding edge of generative AI, focusing on the end-to-end data lifecycle—from orchestrating real-time telemetry to architecting the pipelines that train and refine our models. You will be responsible for ensuring our models are fed with high-quality, diverse, and well-structured data to drive continuous performance improvements.

Responsibilities

• Automated Fine-Tuning Pipelines: Design, build, and maintain highly scalable, automated data pipelines to extract, clean, and format massive datasets specifically for LLM fine-tuning (Supervised Fine-Tuning, RLHF, and DPO).
• Real-Time Agent & LLM Evaluation: Develop robust telemetry and sampling systems to ingest real-time production data. Use this data to continuously measure, evaluate, and benchmark the real-time performance, latency, and accuracy of live LLMs and AI agents.
• Synthetic Data Generation: Architect and scale synthetic data generation workflows. Leverage foundational models to create high-variance synthetic datasets to augment training data, cover edge cases, and mitigate bias where real-world data is scarce or privacy-restricted.
• Data Quality & Curation: Implement automated data quality checks, deduplication strategies, and toxicity filtering to ensure the highest standard of data integrity entering the model training pipelines.
• Infrastructure & MLOps Integration: Partner closely with ML Researchers and DevOps to integrate data pipelines with model training infrastructure, ensuring seamless continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) for model updates.
• Vector Database Management: Manage and optimize data flows into vector databases to support Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities for our agentic workflows.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, or MLOps.
• Programming Languages: Expert-level proficiency in Python and advanced SQL.
• Generative AI & LLMs: Demonstrated hands-on experience working with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), open-source models (Hugging Face, Llama), and orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, or AutoGen).
• Synthetic Data: Proven experience employing prompt engineering and programmatic techniques for high-quality synthetic data generation and validation.
• Data Orchestration: Strong experience with workflow orchestration tools.
• Cloud & Big Data: Experience with scalable cloud infrastructure (GCP) and distributed data processing frameworks.
• These are the applicable requirements, although equivalent competencies in any of the above will also be considered.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with vector search and vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus, Weaviate, Qdrant).
• Experience with LLM evaluation frameworks (e.g., RAGAS, TruLens, DeepEval) and building automated LLM benchmarking suites.
• Understanding of privacy-preserving techniques (PII redaction pipelines) for handling sensitive data in ML training.
• Experience deploying streaming data pipelines (Kafka, Flink, or Kinesis) for real-time analytics.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)
• Experience deploying streaming data pipelines (Kafka, Flink, or Kinesis) not just for analytics, but to feed real-time contextual data into our agentic workflows and streaming RAG systems.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Initial stock options grant
• Annual performance bonus
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave
• Work model: currently fully remote, with a future transition to a hybrid setup
• Health, dental, and vision plans
• 401(k) with employer matching, for US-based employees
• Continuous learning opportunities
• Empowering opportunities for growth in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment

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