Senior AI Data Engineer — Lead Data Platforms & ML for Federal

Intertwine Associates LLC; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Intertwine Associates LLC is seeking a Senior AI/Data Engineer to design and deliver data platforms, ML systems, and AI applications for federal clients. You will lead data pipelines on cloud services, set engineering standards, and guide engineers and data scientists across multidisciplinary teams.

This remote role requires strong client engagement, clear technical briefings for leadership, and the ability to obtain relevant security clearances as required by contracts.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building data pipelines, machine learning systems, or AI applications in production, including 2+ years leading technical work.
• Expert Python (including Pandas and NumPy) and advanced SQL, with experience integrating relational and unstructured sources.
• Deep hands-on experience with Azure data services, or equivalent depth in AWS or Google Cloud.
• Production experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or scikit-learn.
• Experience with data validation, schema enforcement, quality assurance, and governance in regulated environments.
• Experience designing APIs and microservices for analytics and ML platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including briefing senior, non-technical audiences.
• U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency may be required per contract.
• Ability to obtain a federal government Public Trust or security clearance where the assignment requires one.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the delivery of enterprise data platforms and pipelines on Azure (Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL, Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric / Foundry) or equivalent cloud services.
• Set standards for ETL design, schema enforcement, data validation, quality checks, and lineage, and review other engineers’ work against them.
• Design, build, and deploy machine learning and AI solutions, including applications built on large language models such as retrieval-augmented generation, document understanding, and agentic workflows, with evaluation and guardrails.
• Build secure API endpoints and microservices that make data and models available to analytics and ML platforms.
• Establish MLOps practices: experiment tracking, model registries, CI/CD, containers, monitoring, and cost and performance tuning.
• Apply data and AI governance for compliance, reproducibility, auditability, and responsible AI, including federal frameworks such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
• Translate mission and business needs into technical roadmaps, estimates, and briefings for client leadership.
• Mentor engineers and data scientists and lead technical work across multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud computing

Communication

Leadership

Security clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Azure Data Services

AWS

Google Cloud

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Intertwine Associates LLC is seeking a Senior AI/Data Engineer to design and deliver data platforms, ML systems, and AI applications for federal clients. You will lead data pipelines on cloud services, set engineering standards, and guide engineers and data scientists across multidisciplinary teams.

This remote role requires strong client engagement, clear technical briefings for leadership, and the ability to obtain relevant security clearances as required by contracts.