AI Engineer

Job#: 3058851
Job Description:
AI Engineer
Location: Houston, Texas (On-site)
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled AI Engineer to design, build, and support advanced AI-enabled data solutions on the Databricks platform. This role requires deep Databricks engineering capability and expert SQL skills to perform complex query analysis, optimization, and debugging. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable, and production-ready pipelines and AI solutions.
Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and productionize AI and machine learning solutions using the Databricks platform and its native AI capabilities.
• Build and maintain robust Databricks data engineering workflows using declarative pipeline techniques, including Lakeflow and Delta Live Tables.
• Develop scalable data pipelines to support AI, analytics, and downstream reporting use cases.
• Perform advanced SQL analysis across complex datasets, including query development, debugging, reconciliation, and root-cause analysis.
• Investigate poorly performing SQL queries and implement improvements to execution patterns, logic, joins, and filters.
• Optimize SQL workloads for performance, reliability, and maintainability within Databricks.
• Analyze data quality issues and trace defects through source data, pipelines, and SQL logic.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and business SMEs to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Apply modern software engineering practices, including modular design, version control, testing, code review, and deployment discipline.
• Support production incidents and troubleshoot issues across AI solutions, Databricks pipelines, and SQL workloads.

Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field of study.
Experience: Extensive hands-on experience in an AI Engineering, Data/AI Engineering, or closely related technical role utilizing Databricks within enterprise environments.
Technical Skills: Deep expertise in writing and debugging complex SQL queries (CTEs, window functions, and joins), hands-on experience with Python and PySpark, and proficiency in building declarative pipelines (Delta Live Tables or Lakeflow). Strong knowledge of Delta Lake, data quality management, and version control processes is required.
Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Databricks Mosaic AI capabilities, MLflow, model serving, Vector Search, and generative AI integrations.
• Knowledge of Unity Catalog, Databricks SQL Warehouses, and governance patterns within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
• Experience with medallion architecture, enterprise lakehouse design patterns, and tuning Spark workloads for cost and performance.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform and associated enterprise data services.

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