AI Data Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 22, 2026.
About the role :
The Data + Automation team builds the data and automation infrastructure behind decision-making across the business. Our platform runs on Databricks and AWS. We're hiring a strong software engineer to design, build, and ship production services - including LLM-powered agents and the tooling around them. This is a hands-on, code-first role.
What you'll work on :
- Designing, building, and productionizing LLM agents : tool-use loops, retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, and guardrails
- Writing the production-grade services and APIs around those agents in Python and Node/TypeScript
- Deploying and operating on AWS - provisioning with IaC, wiring CI/CD, owning your code from commit to production
- Contributing to a shared codebase with feature branches, code review, and Conventional Commits
Tech Stack & Requirements :
- Strong Python and Node/TypeScript - writes clean, tested, production-grade code
- Real AWS experience - IaC (Terraform, CDK), CI/CD, S3, IAM, networking
- LLM Agents : Built and shipped LLM agents to production, RAG, agent loops, evaluation
- Databricks : Proficiency in Databricks notebooks, Jobs, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake operations
General bar :
- 4+ years writing code, not configuring tools
- Ships independently : scopes work, executes, communicates progress
- Can ramp on an unfamiliar system by reading docs and asking targeted questions
Skills
AI Integration, Artificial Intelligence, Data Engineering, Databricks, AWS, Node.js, Python, LLM, RAG