FDE - Data Engineer
Core
Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with customers to design, build, and deploy scalable data platforms and pipelines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for analytics, operational workloads, and AI/ML solutions.
Role type
Senior IC Data Engineer (Cloud & AI)
Builds
Scalable data pipelines, data lakes/warehouses, and data products on GCP
Domain
Cloud Data Engineering & AI Enablement
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Python, GCP services (BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer), Spark, Git, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Data Modeling, Batch/Streaming Processing
Preferred skills
TensorFlow/PyTorch, Hugging Face, Agentic AI Systems (LangGraph, AutoGen), RAG architectures, System-level optimization, Business Acumen
Technologies
GCP, BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Airflow, Dataform, Vertex AI, Spark, Python, Git
Responsibilities
Partner with customers to translate business challenges into technical solutions; Design and build scalable data pipelines and platforms on GCP; Implement batch and real-time data ingestion and transformation; Build PoCs and MVPs to validate architecture; Own delivery workstreams from discovery to production stabilization; Optimize data workloads for performance, scalability, and cost; Integrate data foundations for Machine Learning and Generative AI; Contribute reusable code and reference architectures to the engineering team.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC