AI Engineer (Data Pipeline Automation)
About the role
We are looking for an engineer to build and deploy an intelligent, autonomous operations agent that supervises our data pipeline infrastructure around the clock. The agent will predict delivery delays before they occur, verify data quality using adaptive statistical baselines, and synthesize code level fixes for routine operational failures. You will own the agent end to end, from design and evaluation to production reliability.
What you'll do
- Predictive health and SLA forecasting: Build models that analyze in flight pipeline progress, execution velocity, and resource consumption against historical benchmarks to forecast SLA breaches 1 to 2 hours ahead, triggering priority re queueing or upstream escalation.
- Bottleneck profiling and self healing: Enable the agent to inspect execution DAGs and query profiles when jobs stall or degrade, isolate root causes, and autonomously create isolated branches that synthesize fixes for syntax errors, upstream schema changes, and column renames. Each fix is verified through dry run assertions and submitted as a review ready change request with full test results for human approval.
- Statistical and semantic data quality forensics: Replace static thresholds with rolling time series baselines that account for seasonality, day of week swings, and business close cycles, and profile categorical entropy, column distributions, and foreign key orphan rates to catch subtle corruption that row counts and schemas miss.
- Lineage reconciliation and quarantine: Trace datasets from raw ingestion through marts and reporting views, run cross tier checksums and consistency assertions before reporting cycles begin, and automatically quarantine partitions with severe violations so bad metrics never reach executive dashboards.
- Conversational copilot and incident management: Generate root cause incident briefs covering failure cause, affected downstream assets, and recovery steps to cut alert noise, and build a natural language interface for checking pipeline health, triggering selective partition re runs, and analyzing data distributions.
Requirements
- Python (core): strong production grade Python for automation, agent logic, testing, and data processing.
- SQL (core): advanced SQL for profiling, validating, and troubleshooting data in warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.
- ETL/ELT and orchestration (core): hands on experience building and operating pipelines with Airflow (or Dagster/Prefect) and dbt, and understanding of how failures originate and propagate.
- Data quality, observability, and statistics: experience with tools like Great Expectations, Soda, or Monte Carlo, plus a solid grasp of anomaly detection, time series baselines, and forecasting.
- LLM/agent engineering: experience with tool calling, multi step agents, and frameworks such as the Claude Agent SDK or LangGraph, with a focus on safety, evaluation, and reliability.
About Turing
Turing is an AI company based in San Francisco that works with the world's leading AI labs to make their models better at reasoning, coding, languages and more. It also helps businesses build real AI systems, and it works with talent from over 100 countries.
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