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Principal GenAI Data Engineer

engineeringfull-timeRemote - USA
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WORK TYPE
remote
JOB TYPE
full-time
INDUSTRY
ai
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Role

We are looking for a Principal GenAI Data Engineer to join our IT Data Strategy team. This role is fully remote within the US, reporting to the Senior Manager, Enterprise AI Data Platform. We are seeking an experienced technical leader to drive the design and implementation of enterprise-grade Generative AI data ingestion, knowledge preparation, and platform architectures that enable scalable, production-ready GenAI applications. This role focuses on architecting robust pipelines and platforms for ingesting, processing, governing, and serving structured and unstructured enterprise data for AI/LLM workloads. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in enterprise data architecture, unstructured data pipelines, GenAI platform engineering, and strong software engineering skills in Python.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

  • Architect enterprise-scale GenAI data platforms for ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and serving of structured and unstructured data
  • Design scalable pipelines for enterprise knowledge ingestion from diverse data sources including documents, SaaS platforms, knowledge bases, collaboration tools, and databases
  • Define architecture for metadata extraction, chunking, enrichment, embeddings generation, and knowledge preparation workflows
  • Design AI-ready data models and storage strategies for vector, graph, and hybrid knowledge systems
  • Architect scalable unstructured data processing pipelines for text, images, PDFs, tables, and multimodal content

Who You Are (Success Profile)

  • You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. You adapt to what’s needed, navigating seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
  • You are a problem-solver. You seek out challenges because you are energized by finding solutions, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.
  • You lead with integrity. You do the right thing, even when it’s hard. You hold yourself and others to a high standard of accountability and build trust by matching your words with consistent, transparent action.
  • You think at scale. You connect your day-to-day work to the larger company mission and think globally.
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Principal GenAI Data Engineer at Zscaler — Remote