Data Engineer (AI & LLM Expertise)

Immediate need for a talented Data Engineer (AI & LLM Expertise) . This is a 06-12+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Plano, TX / San Antonio, TX(Onsite) . Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested. Job ID:26-17629 Pay Range: $55 - $60/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location). Key Responsibilities: Maintain and enhance dbt models across staging (DL2) and mart (DL3) layers. Monitor and triage dbt Cloud job failures, diagnosing root causes using run logs. Support Control-M scheduling changes and DBT deployments. Update dev_env.tfvars / Terraform configs for dbt Cloud environment and credential changes. Write and maintain SQL models following SQLFluff lint standards (ruff, mypy for Python). Manage source freshness and data quality test failures. Contribute to GitLab MR reviews and follow CI/CD pipeline (Slim CI ? CD ? Prod deployment via migration tags). Submit and track Client (SNOW) requests for Client access, service accounts, and infra changes. Apply knowledge of LLM architecture and principles (e.g., tokenization, embeddings) to data preparation and feature engineering for AI/ML projects. Develop and maintain robust Python code for ETL processes, with an understanding of how data is processed by LLMs. Assist in evaluating and optimizing LLM outputs, considering factors like token limits and response relevance. Document AI/ML data pipelines, including explanations of tokenization strategies and data transformations relevant to LLM processing. Key Requirements and Technology Experience: Must have skills: “Data Engineer #J-18808-Ljbffr Pyramid Consulting, Inc