Senior AI Data Engineering Specialist
About the role
What you'll be doing
- Discover, collect, classify, normalize, and curate data for AI use cases.
- Build data pipelines for Building Management System (BMS) scripts, documentation, metadata, semantic models, and other engineering assets.
- Establish data lineage and provenance, along with quality, versioning, and access controls.
- Prepare datasets for training, validation, benchmarking, and regression testing.
- Connect ontologies and knowledge graphs with AI retrieval and grounding systems.
- Define strategies for chunking, indexing, embeddings, retrieval, and metadata.
- Design processes for expert review, labeling, annotation, and feedback.
- Identify duplicate content, inconsistent tagging, sensitive information, and quality issues.
- Partner with legal, cybersecurity, privacy, and product teams to define appropriate data use.
- Assess data coverage and identify gaps that materially affect model performance.
What you bring
- A background in data engineering, knowledge engineering, or data pipelines for machine learning.
- Solid skills in data modeling and metadata management.
- Proficiency in building reliable data pipelines using Python, SQL, or comparable technologies.
- Hands-on experience preparing data for machine-learning or LLM applications.
- An understanding of embeddings, vector search, RAG, and datasets used for evaluation.
- The ability to collaborate effectively with domain experts and ontology specialists.
You might also have
- Familiarity with RDF, OWL, knowledge graphs, or semantic databases.
- A background in processing source code or domain-specific languages.
- Knowledge of technical documentation and engineering data.
- Experience in applied AI, building technologies, energy management, automation, or IoT systems.
We recognize that skills and competencies can be developed through a variety of experiences, both professional and personal. Even if you don't meet every single requirement listed, we still encourage you to apply. Your unique background and perspective could be exactly what we're looking for.
This job posting represents an active opportunity within our team. All applications are reviewed directly by our recruitment professionals, and no AI is used in the screening or selection process.
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