Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amtrak is a company dedicated to connecting businesses and communities across the United States. The Data & AI Engineer Specialist plays a key role in delivering enterprise data and AI capabilities, transforming data requirements into scalable pipelines and services to support data-driven decisions and innovation.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines, AI frameworks and integration workflows supporting analytics and AI applications
- Implement data transformation, validation, and quality controls to ensure reliability and compliance with standards
- Collaborate with architects, analysts, and data scientists to operationalize data models and business logic
- Participate in agile planning, sprint delivery, and retrospectives to continuously improve team performance
- Document technical specifications, lineage, and best practices for data assets and workflows
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
- 2–4 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, integration, or software development
- Proficiency in Python and SQL with strong foundations in data and AI architecture, including feature pipelines, model serving, and inference patterns
- Understanding of ETL/ELT concepts, APIs, and data pipeline orchestration
- Strong experience building federated data and feature models; performance tuning for analytics and AI workloads; designing reusable views and features; implementing caching, row-level security, and data contracts
- Experience working within cloud or hybrid data environments
- Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and deliver high-quality results within an agile framework
- Effective collaboration and communication skills across technical and business stakeholders
- Experience with data lakehouse or cloud data platforms
- Familiarity with metadata management, lineage, and observability practices
- Exposure to AI/ML pipeline development, automation frameworks, or MLOps concepts
Benefits
- Amtrak may consider a geo-pay differential to be applied to the employee’s base salary.
- Amtrak may offer additional incentive and pay programs to recognize and reward our employees, including a short-term incentive bonus based upon factors such as individual and company performance that is commensurate with the level of the position.
- Health, dental, and vision plans
- Health savings accounts
- Wellness programs
- Flexible spending accounts
- 401K retirement plan with employer match
- Life insurance
- Short and long term disability insurance
- Paid time off
- Back-up care
- Adoption assistance
- Surrogacy assistance
- Reimbursement of education expenses
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility
- Railroad Retirement sickness and retirement benefits
- Rail pass privileges
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