Archived listing. The details below describe a past opening.
Our client, an early-stage AI Startup, is hiring a Founding Engineer to join their team in San Francisco. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing and scaling a multi-tenant, AI-native platform, from building the semantic foundation that allows autonomous agents to interpret data and taking action across sources ranging from ERP systems to unstructured documents and real-world signals.
Responsibilities
• Design and develop scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines across both structured and unstructured data sources.
• Build and maintain a robust connector framework for integrating enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, PLM, legacy databases, emails, documents and spreadsheets).
• Architect and evolve the Data Fabric layer, including knowledge graphs and semantic data models.
• Prepare and vectorize data to support AI use cases such as RAG, summarization and intelligent alerting.
• Establish and manage data governance, lineage, and access control frameworks.
• Develop secure, well-designed APIs to enable access to enriched data across services and autonomous agents.
• Partner closely with ML teams to support model training, optimization and deployment pipelines.
Skillset
• At least five years' experience building production-grade data infrastructure.
• Strong expertise in ETL/ELT pipelines, including tools such as Kafka, Airbyte, Fivetran and Meltano.
• Proven experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Airflow, Dagster or Prefect.
• Hands-on experience processing unstructured data, including PDFs, emails, logs, spreadsheets and APIs.
• Familiarity with lakehouse architectures and formats such as Iceberg, Delta and Parquet.
• Solid understanding of graph databases and semantic modelling, including technologies like Neo4j, RDF and Gremlin.
• Strong API design capabilities, with experience in GraphQL and RESTful services.
• Experience implementing data governance frameworks, including RBAC, ABAC, data lineage, and quality controls.
Benefits
• Salary: $140k - $180k
• Equity.