Data Engineer (AI) at TechStarsGroup · Remote (United States)
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Distributed Systems
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LLM
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Python
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Spark
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Building and maintaining pipelines
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Experience operationalizing data systems and/or models in production
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Using AI tools to accelerate development and problem solving
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Ability to reason about data quality, anomalies, and outputs
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Why they ask: Core skill.
How to answer: Ingestion, storage, orchestration, idempotency, backfills, monitoring.
Why they ask: Data correctness.
How to answer: Watermarks, dedup keys, reprocessing windows.
Why they ask: LLM is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
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Why they ask: Distributed Systems is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
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