439 lead data engineer jobs at 238 companies in Milpitas, CA
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Founding Machine Learning / AI Search Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$310k/yrOn-SiteFull Time
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
Build the ML and AI search behind HiringCafe — ranking, recommenders, retrieval, and LLM agents that surface jobs people would never find on their own.
Lam ResearchNASDAQ: LRCX: Designs and manufactures wafer fabrication equipment for the semiconductor industry.
8+ YOEBachelor's degree in CS/CE/Information Systems, 8+ years in data engineering/architecture, strong Microsoft Azure experience, proficiency in Python, SQL, Spark, experience building production-grade data pipelines and modern data architectures for AI/ML.
Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Python, SQL, Spark, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Neo4j, Azure AI Search, CI/CD
World Market: Retailer of imported home furnishings and international food products.
10+ YOE10+ years data engineering experience, 5+ years with Snowflake, expert SQL and Python, experience with Airflow, dbt, Git, CI/CD, Terraform, data modeling (Kimball), API design and production support.
CrewAI: Platform for orchestrating collaborative multi-agent AI systems.
Experienced data engineer to own data platform, build pipelines, define trusted metrics, improve instrumentation, and make data self-serve for product and go-to-market teams.
Foundry Robotics: An AI-native robotics manufacturer focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware.
5+ YOE5-7 years data engineering experience; TB–PB-scale pipelines; Spark/Flink/Kafka/Airflow/dbt; Python/SQL; Go/Java/TypeScript a plus; cloud data services; architecture and governance; independent, end-to-end ownership.
Lam ResearchNASDAQ: LRCX: Manufacturing equipment used to fabricate advanced semiconductor microchips.
8+ YOEBachelor’s degree in CS/CE/IS; 8+ years in data engineering; Azure cloud experience; Python, SQL, Spark; Lakehouse/Medallion patterns; cross-functional collaboration.
Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Python, SQL, Spark, Neo4j, Vector Search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Hark: An AI focused on next-generation multimodal intelligence and hardware-enabled interfaces.
5+ YOELead data engineering for scalable multi-modal pipelines; 5+ years in data engineering; strong infra experience with Spark/Beam/Flink; collaborate with researchers and engineers.
Meltwater: Global media intelligence and social analytics platform for businesses.
Design and implement scalable data solutions; lead data modeling and migrations; build dashboards; collaborate across teams; expert in Snowflake, AWS, SQL, Tableau; AI/ML experience.
Agtonomy: Software for autonomous agricultural and off-road machinery fleets.
7+ YOE7+ years building production data systems; deep SQL and time-series modeling; ClickHouse or OLAP experience; strong Python; React experience building analytics UIs; familiarity with dbt/Cube/MetricFlow; high standards for data quality.
The Walt Disney CompanyNYSE: DIS: Produces movies, operates theme parks, and provides streaming services.
5+ YOE5+ years data engineering experience (1+ year senior/lead), strong Python/Java/SQL, streaming pipeline experience (Kafka/Flink/Spark/Kinesis), embedding/vector store experience, workflow orchestration, and data architecture skills.
Early Warning Services: Operates payment and risk solutions for the financial industry.
15+ YOE15+ years in software, FinTech, leading cross-functional teams; expert in data engineering, SDLC, cloud, and architectures; hands-on with Java, microservices, big data, and CI/CD.
AppleNASDAQ: AAPL: Designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and online services.
Design and support data pipelines and analysis workflows; integrate with research leads, data scientists, and engineers; build and maintain iOS and macOS apps for data collection and prototyping.
The Walt Disney CompanyNYSE: DIS: Produces media content and operates global theme parks.
5+ YOE5+ years data engineering experience (1+ year senior/lead), building streaming and batch pipelines, strong Python/Java/SQL, experience with Kafka/Flink/Spark/Kinesis, embedding/vector stores and orchestration tools, bachelor's in CS or equivalent.
Gridsight: Provides an AI-powered cloud analytics platform for electricity grid management.
4+ YOE4+ years in data/analytics engineering or technical consulting, advanced SQL, Python, dbt or similar, cloud data infrastructure experience, Git and CLI, and ability to lead customer-facing technical engagements.
Databricks, dbt, Dagster, AWS, Claude Code, SQL, Python, Git
SnowflakeNYSE: SNOW: Cloud-based platform for data storage, processing, and analytics.
8+ YOE8+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data architecture; expert Snowflake usage; strong dbt and Airflow skills; AI tooling experience; RBAC at scale; excellent communication; principal-level scope.
San Francisco or New York or Seattle or Indianapolis
$238k-$345k/yrHybridFull Time
SalesforceNYSE: CRM: Sells cloud-based customer relationship management and business software solutions.
12+ YOE12+ years in software/data engineering; related technical degree required; deep expertise in knowledge graph technologies, ontology engineering, graph databases, semantic search, vector search, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and leading enterprise-scale technical programs.
Neo4j, TopQuadrant, RDF/OWL, SPARQL, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Salesforce Data Cloud, AWS, GCP, Azure, MCP frameworks, AI agents
ProcoreNYSE: PCOR: Cloud-based construction management software for projects and teams.
8+ YOE8+ years building and operating large-scale data systems for ML; strong SQL and Python; experience with data pipelines, dataset curation, quality, and observability; ability to lead technical efforts and mentor engineers.
Cartesia: Builds real-time generative voice and multimodal AI models.
Lead data infrastructure team; define multi-modal data strategy; build scalable data pipelines for text, audio, and video; manage external data vendors and budgets; mentor engineers.
Member of Technical Staff – Senior Engineer, Data Curriculum Lead
Cambridge or San Francisco
$255k-$340k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Walden Robotics: A robotics building general-purpose robots and data-driven model training to improve quality of life.
Senior IC to design and run data curricula and experiments, build tooling, and influence cross-team model quality; strong data-centric ML and engineering skills required.