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Change.org
Change.org: Nonprofit-owned public-benefit technology platform helping people and organizations create petitions, mobilize supporters, and engage decision-makers.
7+ YOE7+ years of software engineering experience; expertise in distributed data systems, Python, SQL, cloud-native infrastructure, AI platforms, production operations, observability, and technical leadership.
Python, SQL, Airflow, Kafka, Redshift, Glue, Vector DBs, Spark, AWS, GCP
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Senior Staff Physical AI Data Algorithm Engineer
Santa Clara or Mountain View
$203k-$344k/yr OnsiteFull Time
XPeng
XPengNYSE; HKEX: XPEV; 9868: Global AI mobility technology focused on smart EVs.
3+ YOEMaster’s or higher in CS/AI/Automation; 3+ years in multi-modal AI or AI data platform; experience with on-vehicle data upload, cloud processing, training and simulation integration.
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Senior Staff AI Engineer
San Diego or California
$200k-$299k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Teradata
TeradataNYSE: TDC: Enterprise cloud-based data analytics and artificial intelligence.
12+ YOEBachelor's degree in CS/Engineering (or equivalent), 12+ years building backend/distributed systems or data/AI platforms; strong Java, Go, or Python skills; experience with SQL/NoSQL, cloud platforms, Kubernetes/Docker, CI/CD, and production observability.
Java, Go, Python, SQL, NoSQL, LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, RAG, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD
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Staff AI Data Platform Engineer
San Ramon or Reno
$139k-$173k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Ridgeline
Ridgeline: Private investment management software serving asset and wealth managers through an AI-native cloud platform.
7+ YOE7+ years engineering experience; designing distributed systems, secure API integrations, cloud engineering (AWS), infrastructure-as-code, production Python, and familiarity with vector DBs and RAG pipelines.
Claude Code, Cursor, Snowflake, Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, AWS, Terraform, Python, OAuth 2.0, SSO
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Staff Data Engineer, AI Platform
San Jose, California, United States
$175k-$215k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Archer Aviation
Archer AviationNYSE: ACHR: Aerospace developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
5+ YOE5+ years of data engineering experience; BS, MS, or PhD in a related field; production pipeline expertise with Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbt, or similar; strong SQL and AWS experience.
Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Airflow, dbt, Apache Iceberg, Apache Paimon, Parquet, Amazon S3, Apache Pulsar, Kafka, SQL, StarRocks, AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, Docker, Kubernetes, Prefect, Dagster, PostgreSQL, Debezium, Airbyte, MLflow
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Staff Data and AI Engineer - Enterprise
Los Angeles, California, United States
$162k-$227k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Riot Games
Riot Games: Developer and publisher of video games and esports.
8+ YOEBachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; 8+ years in enterprise applications, data engineering, or platform engineering; scalable AI, data pipelines, integrations, Databricks, orchestration, warehousing, and enterprise platforms expertise.
Workato, n8n, Camunda, Google Vertex, Agent Platform, Anthropic Claude Platform, OpenAI Platform, RAG, Databricks, Workday, ServiceNow, Coupa, Concur, Oracle, IronClad, LangChain, Pydantic AI, LangGraph, CrewAI, Vertex AI Agent Builder, Microsoft AutoGen, AWS, dbt
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Staff Data Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$237k-$270k/yr HybridFull Time
Front
Front: Private customer-operations software serving B2B teams with collaborative communication and workflow tools.
5+ YOE5+ years data engineering/ETL experience, Snowflake, advanced SQL and Python, experience with big data technologies and workflow tools, BS/BA or equivalent, strong stakeholder collaboration and AI fluency.
Snowflake, Python, SQL, HDFS, EMR, Redshift, Spark, Flink, Presto, Airflow
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Staff Data and AI Engineer - Enterprise
Los Angeles, California, United States
$162k-$227k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Riot Games
Riot Games: Developer and publisher of video games and esports.
8+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent, 8+ years in enterprise data/platform engineering, hands-on Databricks experience, orchestration and AI platform experience, enterprise integrations, data modeling, and strong communication skills.
Workato, n8n, Camunda, Google Vertex/Agent Platform, Anthropic Claude Platform, OpenAI Platform, Databricks, OneStream, Workday, ServiceNow, Coupa, Concur, Oracle, IronClad, LangChain, Pydantic AI, LangGraph, CrewAI, Vertex AI Agent Builder, Microsoft AutoGen, AWS, dbt, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
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Staff Data Engineer - AI Platform
United States or North America or San Francisco or Los Angeles or New York City or Washington or London or Singapore
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TRM Labs
TRM Labs: Blockchain intelligence for detecting crypto-related financial crime.
Experience operating distributed OLAP or serving-layer systems, tuning queries, owning pipeline reliability, responding to incidents, using AI tools, and taking on-call responsibility. U.S. citizenship required.
StarRocks, Claude, Trino, ClickHouse, Cursor, Slack, Otter.ai, Fireflies, Fathom, Cluey
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Staff Data Engineer
Foster City, California, United States
$146k-$234k/yr HybridAll Commitments Available
Visa
VisaNYSE: V: Global leader in digital payments and transaction technology.
5+ YOE5+ years data engineering with a Bachelor's or 2+ years with an advanced degree; or 0 years with a PhD. Strong big data, Spark, Hadoop, Python, SQL; Java, REST APIs, and container tech; ML/AI model experience.
Hadoop, Spark, Python, SQL, Java, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Flink, TensorFlow, Triton, AWS, Unix/Shell, Airflow, Control-M, React, Redux, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
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Staff Engineer - Data Engineering
Scottsdale or San Francisco or Chicago or New York City or Phoenix or California
$124k-$223k/yr HybridFull Time
Early Warning Services
Early Warning Services: U.S. bank-owned fintech and consumer reporting agency providing identity, fraud-risk, and real-time payment solutions to financial institutions.
8+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 8+ years relevant experience, and extensive data engineering expertise across scalable platforms, distributed systems, cloud, AI/ML, data warehouses, and real-time processing.
SQL Server, HDFS, Elastic Search, IBM Infosphere, Python, Spark, PySpark, R, Data Robot, Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, Tensorflow, Sage Maker, Scikit, PyCharm, Cloudera, S3, Oracle, Aerospike, Scality S3, AppDynamics, Kubernetes, HBase, Hive, Solr, Scala, Databricks, Snowflake
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Staff Data Engineer
Los Angeles or Santa Ana or New Jersey or Texas or Florida or Shanghai or Hong Kong or Japan or Canada or Mexico or Germany or France or United States
$165k-$250k/yr RemoteFull Time
Collectors
Collectors: Technology-driven authentication, grading, and vaulting services for collectibles.
8+ YOE8+ years building data platforms with BigQuery/dbt and modern ingestion tools, expert SQL and Python, cloud experience (GCP/AWS), AI-assisted development (Claude Code), and strong reliability and governance practice.
Hevo, Estuary, Google BigQuery, dbt, Claude Code, Python, SQL, GCP, AWS, CI/CD
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Senior Staff Engineer - AI Data Path
Sacramento or California
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DDN
DDN: Private American data storage and AI infrastructure serving enterprises, cloud providers, governments, and research institutions.
12+ YOE12+ years in storage or distributed systems, expertise in NVMe/SSD/RDMA/GPU data paths, proficiency in Python or C/C++, experience optimizing latency-sensitive production systems.
NVIDIA NIXL, Infinia Data Intelligence Platform, NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage, RDMA, NVMe-over-Fabrics, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, C/C++, InfiniBand, NVMe, SSD
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AI Staff Engineer
Long Beach, California, United States
$106k-$183k/yr HybridFull Time
SCAN Group
SCAN Group: Nonprofit healthcare organization providing Medicare Advantage coverage and care services for older adults.
6+ YOEDesign and deploy enterprise AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, and agent frameworks; collaborate across data, security, and business teams; apply responsible AI practices.
Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Teams, Confluence, Python, REST APIs, FastAPI, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, Databricks, Snowflake
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Staff Engineer - AI Agent
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$180k-$260k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Fortinet
FortinetNASDAQ: FTNT: Cybersecurity providing integrated network security and protection solutions.
5+ YOEBackend or full-stack engineer with data-intensive, AI-enhanced applications; 5+ years with BS, or 3+ with MS; strong API, distributed systems, and collaboration.
Python, Go, REST, WebSocket, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Databases, Authentication/Authorization, Distributed Systems, Observability
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Staff Software Data Engineer
Burbank, California, United States
$148k-$229k/yr HybridFull Time
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney CompanyNYSE: DIS: A leading global entertainment and media conglomerate.
8+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent,8+ years building backend architectures,experience with data modeling,SQL,EMR of AI/LLMs,CI/CD and cloud practices,strong communication and critical thinking.
Spark, Python, Angular, Spring Boot, Databricks, AWS, Chart.js, SQL, Kubernetes, LLMs, Google Ads, Facebook, Instagram, Innovid, LiveRamp, The Trade Desk, Yahoo
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Senior Staff Data Science Engineer
Milpitas, California, United States
$173k-$286k/yr OnsiteFull Time
SanDisk
SanDiskNASDAQ: SNDK: Specialist in NAND flash memory and data storage solutions.
8+ YOEMaster’s degree required; 8+ years in AI/ML engineering or data science; expertise in Python, ML frameworks, statistical modeling, scalable systems, and production deployment. Semiconductor experience and PhD preferred.
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, MLflow, Azure ML, Kubeflow, Spark, Databricks, LLMs, RAG, CI/CD
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San Francisco, California, United States
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Orum
Orum: AI-powered calling software that helps sales teams connect with prospects, coach representatives, and generate pipeline.
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering with strong hands-on AI/ML; proven production AI/ML; experience with ML pipelines, LLMs, prompting, RAG, embeddings, and agents; scalable AI system design; data pipelines and large-scale data systems; independent technical direction; customer-impact mindset.
Python, LLMs, ML pipelines, Data pipelines, AI and ML tooling, Prompts, RAG, Embeddings, Agents, BigQuery, ClickHouse
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Staff AI Platform Engineer
San Francisco or Alabama or Arkansas or California or Colorado or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Kentucky or Massachusetts or Michigan or Montana or Missouri or Nevada or New Jersey or New York or North Carolina or Oregon or Pennsylvania or Texas or Washington or Utah or Virginia or Wisconsin or United States
$169k-$273k/yr HybridFull Time
Afresh
Afresh: Private AI software helping grocery retailers order, manage, and sell food with less waste.
5+ YOE5+ years building production software/data/ML systems; strong Python, systems and API design; hands-on LLM systems (retrieval/RAG, agents, evaluation); Databricks/MLflow and modern data-platform experience.
Python, PySpark, dbt, Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, Astronomer, Airflow, Claude, pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, MCP, LangGraph, GitHub, Shortcut, Notion
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Arcade
Arcade: Private AI product-creation marketplace helping consumers design custom jewelry, accessories, and home decor with independent makers.
8+ YOE8+ years building and shipping production ML systems; systems thinking for pipelines, training, serving, and evaluation; strong Python, Linux, PyTorch/TensorFlow; cloud deployment and large-scale data handling.
Python, Linux, PyTorch, TensorFlow
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