Member of Technical Staff, Data Engineering (Remote AI Evaluation Contract)
If you're passionate about testing the boundaries of cutting-edge technology, Jobtacular has your next breakthrough engagement. We're placing an exceptional Member of Technical Staff, Data Engineering (Remote AI Evaluation Contract) earning $7 - $8/hour to work directly on high-impact systems. You'll team up with frontier research labs to construct gold-standard benchmarks and stress-test machine reasoning using your deep expertise in Data Platform Architecture & Engineering, ETL/ELT Pipelines & Data Orchestration, AI Agents & Agent-Ready Data Systems, Technical Leadership & Systems Architecture. No commute, high hourly yield, and pure technical impact.
The Mission & Daily Problems You'll Tackle
- Create agent-ready data foundations: Design reliable, well-documented datasets and interfaces that AI agents can safely discover, query, and use.
- Turn messy data into trusted systems: Transform fragmented operational and product data into consistent, high-quality sources of truth.
- Enable self-service analytics: Build the infrastructure that allows engineering, product, and business teams to answer questions independently without relying on manual data requests.
- Own product analytics infrastructure: Establish the event tracking, instrumentation, data models, and reporting foundations needed to understand product usage and performance.
- Automate data operations: Leverage AI coding agents and intelligent automation to accelerate pipeline development, data validation, documentation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Build for reliability and scale: Establish data quality standards, observability, governance, and scalable architectural patterns from the beginning.
- Raise the engineering bar: Mentor engineers, establish strong data engineering practices, and lead architectural decisions through hands-on execution.
Your Background & Superpowers
- Experience designing analytics infrastructure that supports product insights and operational decision-making.
- AI-native engineering habits: You already use AI coding agents as part of your daily workflow and actively automate repetitive development and data engineering tasks.
- Ability to make pragmatic architectural decisions, balancing scalability, simplicity, performance, and engineering velocity.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards.
- You've been the founding or early Data Engineer responsible for building a company's first real data platform.
- You've designed data systems that support both traditional analytics and AI-powered applications or autonomous agents.
- You have experience building semantic layers, data discovery systems, or structured interfaces that make enterprise data accessible to AI.
The Numbers: Pay, Hours & Autonomy
- Compensation Rate: $7 - $8/hour (verified contractor remuneration)
- Work Arrangement: 100% Remote / Work From Home
- Eligible Remote Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa
- Core Competencies: Data Platform Architecture & Engineering, ETL/ELT Pipelines & Data Orchestration, AI Agents & Agent-Ready Data Systems, Technical Leadership & Systems Architecture
- Hiring Lead: Alex Rivera (Head of AI Sourcing) at Jobtacular
Direct Application Process: Click the Apply button on this page to submit your profile directly for immediate evaluation.