CareerPlan

Staff Data Platform Engineer

New York CityRemoteFull-time$210k–$260k2026-10-16 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Own the shared AI data platform for deepfake detection, turning acquired and synthetic image, video, audio, and text data into reliable, reproducible datasets for model training and evaluation.

Role type

Staff Data Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & Data Engineering)

Builds

End-to-end data platform, Databricks lakehouse, distributed processing stack, and reusable infrastructure for in-house synthetic data generation.

Domain

Cybersecurity / AI Safety / Generative Media

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed processing (Spark, Ray), Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake), Python, SQL, Terraform, CI/CD, AWS, Data pipeline orchestration, Synthetic data generation, Security/compliance data handling

Preferred skills

Multimodal data handling (video/audio/images), ML research support, Adversarial domain experience, Startup environment experience

Technologies

Databricks, Spark, Ray, AWS, S3, GCS, Azure Blob, Airflow, Dagster, Terraform, CI/CD

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end data platform for AI research (ingestion, preprocessing, governance, export); Scale Databricks lakehouse and distributed processing stack; Build reusable infrastructure for synthetic data generation; Ensure dataset reproducibility and traceability; Own pipeline reliability and cost metrics; Partner with ML researchers to build self-serve tools; Mentor engineers on data practices; Collaborate with Security on data handling and access controls.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship