Lead Data Engineer + AI / Machine Learning

Data Engineer + AI / machine learning Onsite -Alpharetta GA / NJ Rate-65 /hr on c2c platform focused on building recommendation systems and advanced analytics using large-scale merchant datasets. The goal is not to hire traditional ETL-focused engineers or pure data scientists. Instead, we’re targeting hybrid Data Engineers who can: • Build scalable data pipelines and data models • Work hands-on with Python • Develop or integrate machine learning models and inference workflows • Contribute to MLOps pipelines (deployment, monitoring, lifecycle) Our environment is AWS-centric, and relevant experience is important, particularly: • AWS (S3, Glue, SageMaker, ECS/Fargate) • Working with data platforms like Snowflake • Building data pipelines and ML workflows end-to-end The team will be working on use cases such as: • Building merchant-level analytical datasets and feature pipelines • Performing feature engineering and model-ready dataset creation • Developing recommendation systems (e.g., nearest neighbor, ML-based models) • Supporting model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines in AWS (SageMaker/ECS) At a high level: • The Engineers will execute across data pipelines, feature engineering, and ML integration • Within the pod, we expect a mix of strengths (some stronger in ML, others in core data engineering) We’ve also included Agentic/LLM-based experience as a “nice-to-have”, not a requirement—this helps future-proof the team without narrowing the candidate pool too much. Key profile we’re targeting: Data Engineers who can move beyond pipelines and help build systems that generate insights and drive recommendations from data