Senior Data/ML Engineer - Real-Time Pipelines

XOXO AI; Home (KS); On-site; USD 250,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Equity

Job summary

XOXO AI is hiring an experienced Data/ML Engineer to build the data foundation and production-grade ML systems that power our product with instant, reliable, and smart capabilities. You’ll architect high-throughput pipelines and deploy low-latency feature and model serving for real-world workloads.

You’ll collaborate with the founders and early team to turn prototypes into production, turning messy signals into trustworthy datasets and real-time capabilities that drive core product experiences.

Qualifications

• Shipped data and/or ML systems from prototype to production with reliability, scalability, and latency outcomes.
• Strong command of data modeling and schema evolution in event-driven/streaming environments.
• Deep experience with streaming and real-time processing (Flink, Spark) including late/out-of-order data.
• Built or operated real-time feature pipelines and/or feature stores for low-latency inference.
• Experience with modern data warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery) and telemetry/event data standards.
• Able to translate product and business questions into durable datasets, metrics, and contracts.

Responsibilities

• Build and run high-throughput batch + streaming pipelines for analytics, training, and product signals.
• Own real-time feature pipelines and online feature serving for low-latency inference.
• Design and govern dimensional data models; handle schema evolution without breaking downstream consumers.
• Implement and optimize model serving infrastructure to meet latency and reliability SLOs.
• Define and enforce event schemas, telemetry standards, and data contracts across teams.
• Partner with engineering, product, and research to turn ambiguous product needs into durable systems.

Skills

Production ML systems

Data modeling

Streaming / real-time processing

Feature stores

Data warehousing

Data contracts

Tools

Flink

Spark

Snowflake

BigQuery

Job description

XOXO AI is hiring an experienced Data/ML Engineer to build the data foundation and production-grade ML systems that power our product with instant, reliable, and smart capabilities. You’ll architect high-throughput pipelines and deploy low-latency feature and model serving for real-world workloads.

You’ll collaborate with the founders and early team to turn prototypes into production, turning messy signals into trustworthy datasets and real-time capabilities that drive core product experiences.