Collective

AI Data Engineer – Agent Platform

Collective

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited 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