Staff AI Data Engineer
Analog Devices · Limerick, Munster, Ireland
Semiconductor Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
About the role
Architect and deliver end-to-end, production-grade data and AI solutions, including lakehouse platforms and GenAI workflows. Lead technical execution, mentor engineering staff, and translate complex business challenges into data-driven outcomes.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires 10+ years of experience in software or data engineering with a strong background in distributed systems and production AI/ML deployment. A degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field is required, with an advanced degree considered a plus.
Full description
About Analog Devices
Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, AI, and software technologies into solutions that combat climate change, reliably connect humans and the world, and help drive advancements in automation and robotics, mobility, healthcare, energy and data centers. With revenue of more than $11 billion in FY25, ADI ensures today's innovators stay Ahead of What's Possible. Learn more at www.analog.com and on LinkedIn and X.
Staff AI Data Engineer
Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, and software technologies into solutions that help drive advancements in digitized factories, mobility, and digital healthcare, combat climate change, and reliably connect humans and the world. With revenue of more than $12 billion in FY22 and approximately 25,000 people globally working alongside 125,000 global customers, ADI ensures today’s innovators stay Ahead of What’s Possible.
Overview
As a Staff AI Data Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and hands-on delivery for ADI’s next generation of data and AI solutions. You operate from first principles — reasoning from the fundamentals of distributed systems, data modeling, and machine learning rather than from tooling alone — to design, build, and deploy end-to-end solutions that are highly scalable, performant, secure, and resilient. You are equally strong in advanced data engineering and in applied AI: you can architect a petabyte-scale lakehouse and, in the same breath, design and ship a production AI/GenAI solution on top of it. You plan, design, implement, deploy, and operate; you guide and mentor engineers; and you translate ambiguous business problems into data-driven outcomes with senior stakeholders. You bring strategic, long-term focus on code quality, reliability, reusability, maintainability, DataOps, and MLOps/LLMOps.
Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver end-to-end data and AI solutions — from ingestion and curation to modeling, serving, and consumption — that are scalable, secure, and production-grade.
- Design and build modern data platforms on the lakehouse and cloud data warehouse: streaming and batch ingestion, medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) architectures, data mesh patterns, data modeling, data quality, lineage, security, and governance.
- Design, implement, and deploy AI/GenAI solutions on enterprise data — including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), LLM-powered agents and agentic workflows, vector search, and classical/statistical ML (e.g., anomaly and excursion detection) — and take them through their full lifecycle from prototype to production.
- Build and champion AI-assisted engineering and agentic DataOps — designing LLM-agent orchestration and automation that accelerate data pipeline development, code review, testing, deployment, and operations across the team.
- Stand up MLOps/LLMOps foundations: experiment tracking, model/prompt evaluation, model serving, monitoring, evaluation harnesses, cost and quality guardrails for AI workloads.
- Lead the execution of large-scale, complex data and analytics efforts; scope key business challenges, identify the right data, and provide direction to data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders.
- Partner with data platform, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture teams to architect and connect high-quality, resilient data feeds across the enterprise, and ensure architectural alignment.
- Drive innovation by creating new frameworks, standards, reference architectures, prototypes, and automation — including AI-assisted engineering and DataOps tooling.
- Advise and influence business leaders and senior stakeholders with data-driven insights; communicate both the high-level concept and detailed user stories, and build consensus to adopt data- and AI-driven improvements.
- Design, build, and maintain robust processing frameworks for petabyte-scale structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to enable actionable insights and analytics.
- Build dashboards and data products using enterprise BI tools such as Power BI (preferred) and Tableau.
Technology & Tools
You bring first-principles, hands-on depth across the following. Breadth is expected at this level; not every item is mandatory, but the candidate should be strongly grounded in the core stack.
- Cloud: Cloud platforms — AWS and Azure (compute, storage, networking, identity, cost).
- Data platforms: Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, Structured Streaming, Auto Loader, Unity Catalog), Snowflake, and lakehouse/warehouse design.
- Languages & processing: Expert-level Python and SQL; strong Apache Spark (batch and streaming).
- Data engineering: dbt, medallion and data-mesh architectures, orchestration (Databricks Jobs/Asset Bundles, Airflow/Dagster), CDC and streaming (Kafka/Auto Loader).
- AI/ML & GenAI: Applied LLMs and GenAI — RAG, agents/agentic orchestration, vector search, prompt and context engineering; ML for time-series/anomaly detection; MLflow or equivalent for tracking, evaluation, and model serving; LLMOps/MLOps.
- AI-assisted engineering: Experience building or operating LLM-agent orchestration (e.g., Claude/Anthropic, agent SDKs) to automate data engineering and DataOps workflows is a strong differentiator.
- BI & consumption: Power BI (preferred), building consumable data products/APIs.
- Engineering practices: Git-based workflows, CI/CD, containerization (Docker), testing, and observability; DataOps and reproducible engineering.
- Nice to have: Familiarity with high-volume telemetry/columnar stores, data modeling tools, and data governance tooling is a plus.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in software/data engineering, including 5+ years in data engineering and demonstrable experience designing and shipping AI/ML or GenAI solutions to production.
- Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related field (advanced degree a plus).
- First-principles command of distributed systems, streaming systems, and data engineering fundamentals (Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake, orchestration).
- Deep knowledge of Python, SQL, database and data-model design, and master-data strategies.
- Proven ability to design, architect, and roll out data products and AI solutions, owning them through their entire lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience building applied AI on enterprise data — RAG, LLM agents, vector search, or production ML — with a working understanding of evaluation, guardrails, and cost/quality trade-offs.
- Experience mentoring and leading technical staff and incorporating modern software development tools and practices.
- A confident peer influencer with strong communication skills who quickly establishes credibility and can lead cross-functional technical teams and engage business stakeholders.
Additional Qualifications (Preferred)
- Industry background in a semiconductor manufacturing company — experience with semiconductor design & manufacturing data supporting vertical business units.
- Experience operating in a data-mesh / enterprise data-platform environment across many source systems (ERP, CRM, engineering/IP telemetry).
- Experience metering, evaluating, or governing AI/GenAI workloads (usage, cost, and quality).
- Certifications in cloud platforms, Databricks, Snowflake, or data/AI engineering.
For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S. Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. As such, applicants for this position – except US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) – may have to go through an export licensing review process.
Analog Devices is an equal opportunity employer. We foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed regardless of their race, color, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, social or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, union membership, and political affiliation, or any other legally protected group.
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Job Req Type: Experienced
Required Travel: No
Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days
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For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S. Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. As such, applicants for this position – except US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) – may have to go through an export licensing review process.
Analog Devices is an equal opportunity employer. We foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed regardless of their race, color, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, social or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, union membership, and political affiliation, or any other legally protected group.
Job Req Type: Experienced
Required Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days