Online Member of Technical Staff, Data Engineering — Generative AI Domain Expert

Great opportunity alert: ActiveHired is looking for an experienced Online Member of Technical Staff, Data Engineering — Generative AI Domain Expert paying $7 - $8/hour. Bring your deep background in Data Platform Architecture & Engineering, ETL/ELT Pipelines & Data Orchestration, AI Agents & Agent-Ready Data Systems, Technical Leadership & Systems Architecture to an asynchronous, flexible remote environment where your contributions directly improve system performance. Enjoy competitive hourly pay, weekly disbursements, and full control over your work schedule.

Role Overview & Daily Tasks

• Own product analytics infrastructure: Establish the event tracking, instrumentation, data models, and reporting foundations needed to understand product usage and performance.
• Automate data operations: Leverage AI coding agents and intelligent automation to accelerate pipeline development, data validation, documentation, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Build for reliability and scale: Establish data quality standards, observability, governance, and scalable architectural patterns from the beginning.
• Raise the engineering bar: Mentor engineers, establish strong data engineering practices, and lead architectural decisions through hands-on execution.
• Staff-level engineering expertise with extensive hands-on experience building and operating production data platforms.
• Proven greenfield experience: You've personally led the design and implementation of a data platform from scratch, rather than exclusively maintaining or extending existing infrastructure.
• Deep understanding of data warehouses, ETL/ELT architectures, data modeling, orchestration, and distributed data processing.

Who We Need On the Team

• Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards.
• You've been the founding or early Data Engineer responsible for building a company's first real data platform.
• You've designed data systems that support both traditional analytics and AI-powered applications or autonomous agents.
• You have experience building semantic layers, data discovery systems, or structured interfaces that make enterprise data accessible to AI.
• You've automated substantial portions of data pipeline development, validation, or maintenance using AI agents.
• You know how to avoid overengineering while building foundations that won't need to be replaced six months later.
• You're comfortable moving between data architecture, production pipelines, analytical modeling, and hands-on debugging.

Pay Rate & Remote Benefits

• Compensation Rate: $7 - $8/hour (verified contractor remuneration)
• Work Arrangement: 100% Remote / Work From Home
• Eligible Remote Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa
• Core Competencies: Data Platform Architecture & Engineering, ETL/ELT Pipelines & Data Orchestration, AI Agents & Agent-Ready Data Systems, Technical Leadership & Systems Architecture
• Hiring Lead: David Sterling (Senior Technical Recruiter) at ActiveHired

Direct Application Process: Click the Apply button on this page to submit your profile directly for immediate evaluation.