
AI Data Engineer – Agent Platform
Collective
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $270,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Develop agent infrastructure
- Build retrieval, planning, and execution systems on top of real data
- Support multi-step reasoning and analysis workflows
- Integrate into internal tools
- Build an end-to-end analytics system
- Create a natural language interface over our entire data stack
- Enable anyone to run complex analyses without writing SQL
- Own and improve the data layer
- Collaborate with product engineering to design and evolve clean, consistent data models
- Identify inconsistencies in the core schema and resolve them at the source
- Build and maintain data pipelines
- Own the reliability of our data infrastructure end-to-end
- Debug and fix broken systems (e.g. dbt models, pipeline failures)
- Make it easy to integrate new data sources into the data warehouse
- Make it trustworthy
- Ensure outputs are correct, consistent, and explainable
- Build evaluation loops, monitoring, and guardrails
- Eliminate ambiguity in metrics, definitions, and sources of truth
- Handle permissions, sensitive data, and edge cases
- Drive adoption
- Work directly with teams across EPD, Member Operations, Legal, and more
- Drive alignment on data definitions and system usage
- Turn this into the default way people interact with data
Requirements
- You are a product engineer working in data
- You treat data models as part of the product, not a separate layer
- You have strong opinions on schema design, naming, and consistency
- You're comfortable identifying issues in production data and fixing them at the root
- You are an owner, not a participant
- You take vague, high-stakes problems and turn them into real systems
- You care about outcomes, not just implementation
- You have strong data experience
- Experience with data modeling, warehouses, and pipelines
- You're an exceptional builder
- You can go from idea → architecture → production
- You've built with LLMs, RAG, or agents in production
- You've shipped systems that people actually rely on
- You have influence
- You communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- You can drive alignment across teams with competing priorities
- You're comfortable challenging existing systems and pushing for better approaches.
Benefits
- Hybrid Work Model: Based in San Francisco with a balance of in-office and remote flexibility.
- Fresh Lunch: Provided on in-office days.
- Commuter Support: $150 monthly reimbursement for transit expenses.
- Health & Wellness: $200 quarterly reimbursement to support your well-being.
- Time Off: Flexible PTO plus 14 company holidays.
- Comprehensive Coverage: 100% medical, dental, and vision for employees; 75% coverage for dependents.
- Parental Leave: 16 weeks fully paid.
- Retirement & Ownership: 401k plan plus an equity package.
- Team Connection: Quarterly virtual events and an annual in-person summit.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data modelingdata pipelinesdata warehousesnatural language interfacemulti-step reasoninganalytics systemsschema designdebuggingdata integrationLLMs
Soft Skills
ownershipproblem-solvingcommunicationinfluencecollaborationalignmentattention to detailoutcome-orientedcritical thinkingadaptability