Remote Member of Technical Staff, Data Engineering — LLM Alignment & Research

Welcome to RemoteJob Staffing's executive network. We have an immediate opening for a distinguished Remote Member of Technical Staff, Data Engineering — LLM Alignment & Research ($7 - $8/hour). If you possess extensive experience in Data Platform Architecture & Engineering, ETL/ELT Pipelines & Data Orchestration, AI Agents & Agent-Ready Data Systems, Technical Leadership & Systems Architecture, this project provides a rare opportunity to consult on sophisticated domain architectures. You will establish the factual ground truth that guides enterprise-grade automated systems.

Key Deliverables & Responsibilities

• Enable self-service analytics: Build the infrastructure that allows engineering, product, and business teams to answer questions independently without relying on manual data requests.
• Own product analytics infrastructure: Establish the event tracking, instrumentation, data models, and reporting foundations needed to understand product usage and performance.
• Automate data operations: Leverage AI coding agents and intelligent automation to accelerate pipeline development, data validation, documentation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Build for reliability and scale: Establish data quality standards, observability, governance, and scalable architectural patterns from the beginning.
• Raise the engineering bar: Mentor engineers, establish strong data engineering practices, and lead architectural decisions through hands-on execution.
• Staff-level engineering expertise with extensive hands-on experience building and operating production data platforms.
• Proven greenfield experience: You've personally led the design and implementation of a data platform from scratch, rather than exclusively maintaining or extending existing infrastructure.

Candidate Profile & Requirements

• Ability to make pragmatic architectural decisions, balancing scalability, simplicity, performance, and engineering velocity.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards.
• You've been the founding or early Data Engineer responsible for building a company's first real data platform.
• You've designed data systems that support both traditional analytics and AI-powered applications or autonomous agents.
• You have experience building semantic layers, data discovery systems, or structured interfaces that make enterprise data accessible to AI.
• You've automated substantial portions of data pipeline development, validation, or maintenance using AI agents.
• You know how to avoid overengineering while building foundations that won't need to be replaced six months later.

Engagement Terms & Compensation

• Compensation Rate: $7 - $8/hour (verified contractor remuneration)
• Work Arrangement: 100% Remote / Work From Home
• Eligible Remote Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa
• Core Competencies: Data Platform Architecture & Engineering, ETL/ELT Pipelines & Data Orchestration, AI Agents & Agent-Ready Data Systems, Technical Leadership & Systems Architecture
• Hiring Lead: Elena Rostova (Director of Expert Placement) at RemoteJob Staffing

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