Senior Data Engineer - AI/ML Data Platforms & Pipelines

Akoncagua AI; Lakeland (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Akoncagua AI is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with 7+ years of production data engineering experience to own the data foundation behind our AI systems. This role requires someone who can design highly reliable pipelines for collecting, processing, validating, curating, versioning, and serving large-scale multimodal and technical datasets.

The engineer will work closely with Agentic AI, ML, research, and domain teams to ensure models and agents operate on accurate, traceable, production-quality

Qualifications

• 7+ years of production Data Engineering, Data Platform, ML Data Infrastructure, or closely related experience.
• Expert-level Python and SQL skills with strong software-engineering fundamentals.
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines in production.
• Deep experience with AWS, including technologies such as S3, ECS/EKS, Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, EMR, Athena, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and IAM as appropriate to the architecture.
• Production experience with GCP and/or Azure is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate production-scale end-to-end data pipelines for AI/ML and agentic systems.
• Build ingestion pipelines for PDFs, scanned documents, high-resolution technical images/drawings, structured data, APIs, object stores, databases, and other enterprise sources.
• Develop robust document-processing pipelines including parsing, layout extraction, OCR when appropriate, image processing, metadata extraction, chunking, classification, and quality-control.
• Design automated data validation and quality-control frameworks covering completeness, correctness, consistency, duplication, corruption, schema validity, provenance, and extraction confidence.
• Lead architecture reviews, code reviews, data-quality standards, and technical direction for other data engineers.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Software engineering

Education

BS/MS in CS/CE/Data Eng/AI

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Spark

Airflow

Dagster

Databricks

Kafka

Job description

Akoncagua AI is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with 7+ years of production data engineering experience to own the data foundation behind our AI systems. This role requires someone who can design highly reliable pipelines for collecting, processing, validating, curating, versioning, and serving large-scale multimodal and technical datasets.

The engineer will work closely with Agentic AI, ML, research, and domain teams to ensure models and agents operate on accurate, traceable, production-quality