Staff Data Engineer – AI Startup

Use our easy apply form to send your application to undefined, the Jobot Pro hosting this job. Compensation Based on Experience. Staff Data Engineer – AI Startup $175000 - $215000 per year | New York, NY | Remote | Permanent AI Infrastructure startup is hiring for multiple data engineers ranging from senior to staff level to join the team A bit about us: Join a breakout team building the data backbone of AI—help us scale secure, high-impact systems at the intersection of privacy, performance, and multimodal learning. This early-stage company is building a platform that enables AI developers to access critical training data—legally, securely, and at scale. Already in use across healthcare and media, the system handles complex data types like medical imaging, clinical notes, and licensed video. With fewer than 30 employees and $10M in seed funding from CRV, SV Angel, and Bloomberg Beta, this is a rare opportunity to shape core infrastructure at a company solving one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks. Why join us? Great Benefits, Remote Work, Growth Opportunity, Great Culture, PTO, 401K, and much more! Job Details Requirements (Must Haves): • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field and a minimum of 6 years of data engineering experience • Experience working at an early stage startup (required) • Java (required) and Python (required) • Comfortable building data infrastructure in AWS • Hands-on with DBT for transformations, testing, and data ops (required) • Prior work with Snowflake / Databricks • Experience with at least 1 of these orchestration tools: Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster • US Based • Demonstrated ownership, grit, and interest in shaping the future of AI infrastructure. Responsibilities • Build and scale AWS-based data pipelines for ingest, transformation, validation, and orchestration. • Develop and maintain orchestration systems using Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster. • Create scalable workflows to handle complex, multimodal data including video, imaging, and structured documents. • Use dbt to standardize transformation logic, testing, and data documentation. • Optimize cloud compute and storage operations for performance and cost-efficiency. • Contribute to architecture and development of core platform components. • Drive ambiguous projects from ideation to production with full ownership. • Help shape engineering practices and infrastructure from the earliest stages. Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Jobot also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is Jobot’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. Sometimes Jobot is required to perform background checks with your authorization. Jobot will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local law regarding criminal backgrounds, including but not limited to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Information collected and processed as part of your Jobot candidate profile, and any job applications, resumes, or other information you choose to submit is subject to Jobot's Privacy Policy, as well as the Jobot California Worker Privacy Notice and Jobot Notice Regarding Automated Employment Decision Tools which are available at jobot.com/legal. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Jobot, and/or its agents and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy here: jobot.com/privacy-policy Apply tot his job