Lead AI Engineer

Job Title: Lead AI Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: 12 Months + Extension

Bill Rate: $140,000 - $160,000

Job Type: W-2 Contract

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US-Citizen, H-1B, OPT-EAD, GC-EAD

Preferred Qualification
10+ years of Data Engineering and Software Engineering experience.
3+ years leading complex data engineering initiatives or engineering teams.
Proven experience building enterprise-scale data platforms and pipelines.
Experience delivering cloud-native analytics and AI solutions. Build highly available, secure, and scalable cloud-native data solutions.
Develop ETL/ELT frameworks for ingesting, transforming, and publishing enterprise data.
Implement high-volume distributed processing using Spark and PySpark.
Leverage GitHub Copilot, Claude Code CLI, and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering productivity.

Technical Skills
Build Proof of Concepts (POCs) and MVPs using AI-powered development approaches.
Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS and Databricks ecosystems.
Build scalable architectures for data ingestion, processing, storage, and analytics.

Key Expectations
Strong experience in building enterprise-grade data pipelines, modern Lakehouse architectures, AI-enabled data products, and cloud-native platforms leveraging Databricks, AWS EMR, Spark, PySpark, and AI-native engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code.
The role aligns with enterprise initiatives around AI-assisted engineering, intelligent automation, and AI-powered development workflows

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.