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Work type: On-site
Location: Mountain View, CA · Redmond, WA
Salary: $165,600–$296,400 / yr
Posted: 141 days ago
Closes: Jul 14, 2026
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

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As a Data Engineering IC6 on the AI model training team, you will design and develop robust data pipelines for ingesting vast amounts of multi-modal training data including text, audio, images, and video. Your day-to-day responsibilities include owning and maintaining critical data infrastructures such as Spark and Ray, while also building scalable storage solutions to handle petabytes of data. You will collaborate closely with pretraining and post-training teams to enhance the data recipe through rigorous experimentation, ensuring compliance with data governance standards. This role requires expertise in data engineering, software development, and a deep understanding of data security and compliance. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in designing complex data systems and possess strong skills in Python, SQL, and distributed computing frameworks.

Skills

Spark Ray Vector databases Data pipelines Python CI/CD AWS Kubernetes Docker PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Git Jenkins Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

Design and develop data pipelines for multi-modal training data ingestion.
Own and maintain critical data infrastructures like Spark, Ray, and vector databases.
Build infrastructure capable of storing and processing petabytes of data for models.
Improve data recipes through rigorous and careful experimentation with teams.
Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and regulatory standards.

What we're looking for

Master's degree in a relevant field and 6+ years of experience, or Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in related areas.
Design and develop large-scale data pipelines for multi-modal training data ingestion.
Maintain critical data infrastructures including Spark, Ray, vector databases, etc.
Build infrastructure to store and process petabytes of data for AI models.
Experience with data governance, compliance, and security.

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