AI Data Engineer

AI Data Engineer

Location: Remote, USA
Employment type: Contract
Indicative rate: $67–$77/hr

Contract AI Data Engineer work supports intelligent products by building the data workflows and backend systems that prepare and serve large-scale datasets. Responsibilities may include synthetic data generation, data modeling, storage design, retrieval, and automated validation. The work is suited to engineers who can connect dependable data engineering practices with the needs of AI product and application teams.

Core skills

• AI data pipelines
• Synthetic data generation
• Python
• Data modeling
• Data validation
• Scalable data systems
• Data storage
• Retrieval systems

Required qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines for AI or intelligent product workloads.
• Experience developing automated data generation or data preparation workflows.
• Experience designing data models and storage solutions for large-scale datasets.
• Experience implementing data validation or quality controls.
• Ability to build reliable backend data systems and retrieval mechanisms.
• Experience collaborating with product or engineering teams to support AI-enabled applications.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting Microsoft 365 Copilot or related enterprise AI products.