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Senior AI Data Infrastructure Engineer

Shanghai🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, build, and operate distributed data systems for large-scale AI model training, handling ingestion, processing, and transformation of massive structured and unstructured data (images, videos, 3D models).

Role type

Senior IC data infrastructure engineer (AI/ML data pipelines)

Builds

Scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, distributed data processing frameworks, and high-quality training datasets for generative AI models

Domain

Generative AI, 3D asset creation, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed system development, ETL/ELT pipeline design, Spark/Ray/Flink optimization, cloud object storage management, Kubernetes orchestration, Terraform/IaC, CI/CD implementation, data lineage tracking, unstructured data preprocessing

Preferred skills

Large model training workflow knowledge (pre-training/fine-tuning), 3D/2D asset processing, GPU/HPC cluster experience, data warehouse/lake platform expertise, open-source ML infrastructure contributions

Technologies

Spark, Ray, Flink, Kubernetes, Terraform, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Blender, Unity, Unreal

Responsibilities

Design and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and unstructured data; optimize data processing using distributed frameworks; preprocess and verify quality of model pre-training data; manage infrastructure environments using IaC and CI/CD best practices

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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