Founding Data Engineer, AI Platform
Nth AI San Francisco, California, United States · $150K–$180K/yr
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About the role
You will design, code, and ship software that automates enterprise data integration, transformation, and validation for the Nexus platform. Additionally, you will collaborate with enterprise customers to understand their business requirements and deploy tailored data engineering solutions.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires deep experience in production software engineering and enterprise data engineering using Python, SQL, and Spark. Candidates must also possess hands-on experience with the Microsoft data and AI ecosystem, including Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft Fabric.
Full description
Build the software that powers enterprise AI implementation.
Nth AI is building Nexus, an AI-native implementation platform that creates the trusted data, semantic models, and governed business context enterprise AI needs to operate.
You will be directly responsible for building Nexus itself: designing, coding, testing, and shipping the software that automates enterprise data integration, transformation, modeling, and validation.
You’ll also work directly with enterprise customers to understand their systems and business requirements, deploy what you build, and turn real implementation challenges into reusable product capabilities.
What you’ll build
- Core Nexus software: Backend services, APIs, integrations, and orchestration workflows that power the product’s end-to-end implementation experience.
- Automated data engineering: Software that profiles source systems, reconciles schemas, generates transformation notebooks and pipelines, and builds validated lakehouse assets.
- Semantic and business context capabilities: Workflows for defining relationships, dimensional models, KPIs, and governed semantic models.
- AI-powered implementation workflows: Partner with our AI engineers to connect agents to data engineering tools, evaluate generated assets, and make execution reliable and inspectable.
- Enterprise-ready deployments: Authentication, permissions, configuration, monitoring, failure recovery, and repeatable deployment inside customer environments.
- Reusable enterprise integrations: Translate customer requirements and complex source-system behavior into capabilities that work across deployments.
What we’re looking for
- Production software engineering ability. You have personally shipped and maintained backend software, APIs, services, or reusable data infrastructure. You can take a capability from design through code review, testing, deployment, and operation.
- Deep enterprise data engineering experience. Strong Python, SQL, Spark/PySpark, data modeling, orchestration, incremental processing, schema evolution, and reconciliation.
- Fluency in the Microsoft data and AI ecosystem. Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Foundry, including relevant lakehouse, pipeline, semantic-model, model-integration, or agent workflows. We also welcome exceptional engineers with substantial experience building comparable enterprise data and AI platforms who can quickly become productive in our stack.
- Enterprise customer experience. You can work directly with customer engineering teams and business stakeholders, navigate complex systems and access requirements, and translate ambiguous needs into working software.
- Strong engineering judgment. You use AI coding tools effectively and can independently verify the architecture, code, and data logic they produce.
Bonus points
Experience integrating legacy ERP systems such as SAP ECC, Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, or Dynamics AX, as well as modern platforms such as SAP S/4HANA and Dynamics 365.
We especially value experience with finance, procurement, inventory, manufacturing, and supply-chain data, including custom schemas, master-data inconsistencies, and reconciliation to business reports.
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