Senior Data Engineer for AI Platform (Remote)

Elpixel; Miami, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Elpixel is seeking a Senior Data Engineer / AI Engineer to join our clients in healthcare, building scalable data platforms, pipelines, and AI-ready infrastructure in a 100% remote US role.

You will design data lakes/warehouses, mentor engineers, collaborate with AI/ML teams, ensure data governance, and deliver production-grade APIs and integrations.

Preferred candidates have 7+ years in data/software engineering, strong Python/SQL, and cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Data/Software Engineering or related roles.
• Strong hands-on Python and SQL.
• Expertise in ETL/ELT architectures and data pipelines.
• Experience with cloud providers AWS, Azure or GCP and modern data tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable data pipelines and data platforms.
• Develop and optimize ETL / ELT processes.
• Build data infrastructure to support analytics, Machine Learning, and Generative AI use cases.
• Integrate structured and unstructured data from multiple sources.
• Design and maintain data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouse architectures.
• Improve data quality, reliability, observability, and governance.
• Develop APIs and services for data consumption where required.
• Optimize large-scale data processing and performance.
• Partner with AI/ML teams to operationalize models and AI applications.
• Support MLOps and production AI workflows.
• Ensure appropriate security and privacy controls for sensitive healthcare data.
• Participate in architecture decisions and technology modernization initiatives.
• Mentor other engineers and promote engineering best practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT

AWS

Azure

GCP

Snowflake

Databricks

Spark

Airflow

Kafka

dbt

CI/CD

Data modeling

APIs

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Spark

Airflow

Kafka

dbt

Cloud-native data services

Job description

Elpixel is seeking a Senior Data Engineer / AI Engineer to join our clients in healthcare, building scalable data platforms, pipelines, and AI-ready infrastructure in a 100% remote US role.

You will design data lakes/warehouses, mentor engineers, collaborate with AI/ML teams, ensure data governance, and deliver production-grade APIs and integrations.

Preferred candidates have 7+ years in data/software engineering, strong Python/SQL, and cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP.