Data Engineer / ML Ops
Company: Top Gen AI Jobs
Location: Ohio (Remote)
Type: Contract
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-08-17
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Data Engineer / ML Ops
VC-backed Multimodal AI Startup
United State
3-5 years
1 day ago
$25.3K–38.6K/yr
Full-time
Remote
Skills Required
LLM
Multimodal Data
Python
SQL
Data Engineering
MLOps
Description
VC-backed multimodal AI startup is hiring a Data Engineer / ML Ops to build the data foundation for real-time video and audio AI models. This is a fully remote, foundational role with direct founder collaboration.
Company:
VC-backed multimodal AI startup
Role:
Data Engineer / ML Ops
Location:
Fully remote
Experience
- Expert proficiency in Python
- Expert proficiency in SQL
- Experience building large-scale data processing systems in a production environment
- Proven experience working with LLMs
- Experience managing complex multimodal data challenges like video and audio
- Startup builder mentality
- Extreme ownership
- Ability to define standards in new problem spaces
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end data strategy for multimodal datasets
- Architect the data foundation for authentic, real-time AI humans
- Source, curate, and structure large-scale multimodal datasets for proprietary model training
- Build massive pipelines for video, audio, and text data
- Power proprietary models at the frontier of AI research
- Work directly with founders on complex infrastructure problems
Additional Responsibilities
- Architect and optimize high-performance data pipelines
- Build automated labeling workflows to scale ML production
- Define engineering best practices
- Proactively build the data foundation for next-generation conversational AI
- Act as the first dedicated data hire
More Skills
large-scale data processing systems, production environments, video, audio, text, data pipelines, automated labeling workflows, ML production, engineering best practices, conversational AI
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