AI Data Platform Engineer - Manufacturing Systems and Infrastructure

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Manufacturing Systems and Infrastructure (MSI) team is an engineering organisation under the Product Operations org. MSI is responsible for the design, development and maintenance of system tools, services and applications required to efficiently run manufacturing operations at scale across global factory sites.

## Description

As an AI Data Platform Engineer with the MSI team, you will design, build, and operate scalable AI data platforms that enable GenAI, Agentic AI, and Embodied AI solutions across the enterprise. You will develop reusable platform services, data pipelines, and data quality frameworks that transform fragmented enterprise and multimodal data into trusted, AI-ready datasets — combining expertise in AI data platform engineering, data quality, systems engineering, and AI data lifecycle management to accelerate AI innovation.

## Minimum qualifications

5+ years of experience designing and building scalable data platforms and distributed systems

Strong programming skills in Python and SQL, with proficiency in Java or Scala preferred

Experience with Airflow, Kubeflow, or MLflow to build and orchestrate scalable AI data pipelines

Experience building scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Spark (PySpark), Kafka, Airflow, and Ray, with proficiency in Pandas and modern data lake/lakehouse architectures (e.g., Iceberg, Delta Lake)

Hands-on experience with AI data engineering, including ground truth dataset creation, data curation, annotation pipelines, dataset versioning, and metadata management

Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science or related fields

## Preferred qualifications

Experience implementing data validation, quality frameworks, observability, and AI dataset evaluation

Knowledge of RAG architectures, embedding generation, vector databases, and AI data preparation for LLMs and agentic AI

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code

Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and enterprise integration patterns

Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills

Experience building platforms supporting GenAI, Agentic AI, or Embodied AI applications

Experience with multimodal datasets, knowledge graphs, AI evaluation frameworks, or vector search technologies

Familiarity with enterprise data governance, lineage, metadata management, and AI compliance

Experience working with manufacturing, operational, IoT, or industrial data platforms

Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers