Robots and Pencils
More roles at Robots and PencilsSr. AI Data Engineer
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Listed for United States
From the employer's advert: Location: This position can be located in the following area(s): United States (remote)
Employer listed it 7 days ago · Added 3 weeks ago
Been open since 3 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
$119,514 to $164,899
Location
Listed for United States
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Data
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- Where you can work from
Location: This position can be located in the following area(s): United States (remote)
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- Experience asked for
Our teams average 15+ years of experience.
- Pay
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Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
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About the role
Senior Data Engineer
Location: This position can be located in the following area(s): United States (remote)
Company Overview
Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm building the next frontier of business architecture. We design and ship AI co-workers that integrate into enterprise operations and deliver measurable results for our clients. We're all in on AWS, combining deep UX capability with senior engineering talent to get AI into production fast and keep it there. We’ve earned the trust of leaders across Consumer Products and Retail, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing and more, and earned a reputation as the nimble alternative to traditional global systems integrators. Founded in 2009, with delivery centers in Canada, the United States, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, we are smaller, faster, and more senior by design. Our teams average 15+ years of experience. We move fast, sweat the details, and build things that actually ship.
Position Overview
We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and deliver the data and AI infrastructure behind an enterprise agentic AI platform. This role is ideal for an engineer with several years of experience who can confidently own features end-to-end, contribute to architectural decisions, and bring strong technical judgment to the problems they take on.
In this role, you will work as a key contributor on a cross-functional team alongside AWS Professional Services, embedded with a large enterprise client. You'll help scale an observability data platform from an initial single-agent pilot to a fully automated, end-to-end operations model, establishing the agentic AI framework, along with the data pipelines, observability, and service enablement around it.” You'll be joining real, in-flight work where reliability, security, and scalability matter. You'll collaborate with experienced engineers to enhance existing systems, deliver new capabilities, and contribute to the technical decisions that shape how the platform scales over time.
Why This Role Matters
At Robots & Pencils, we design AI systems for a human world. Our name says it all. Robots and pencils means engineering paired with creativity, because every agent we ship has to work for real people in real workflows. That balance is baked into how we operate. Every role here contributes directly to that mission. Here, you shape how AI systems integrate into enterprise operations, how teams move at real velocity, and how products create measurable impact for clients and the people they serve. We ship production-ready AI in 30 to 45 days. That pace demands people who take ownership, lead with craft, and care deeply about what they put their name on.
What You’ll Do
Craft & Delivery
Design, implement, and deploy data and AI/ML systems on AWS end-to-end, from concept through production, including data lake pipelines, observability instrumentation, and optimization for performance, reliability, and cost
Establish an agentic AI framework and the tooling and service enablement around it, taking agent workloads from a single-agent pilot toward a fully automated, fleet-scale operating model.
Maintain and evolve platforms in production, monitoring for drift, debugging issues, and driving ongoing improvements to reliability and scalability
Bring an AI-forward coding mindset to your daily work, using tools like Claude and Cursor to ship higher-quality work at pace
Collaboration & Communication
Partner closely with AWS Professional Services, client engineering, and data teams to align the work with broader platform and business goals
Translate technical tradeoffs, system behavior, and constraints into terms non-specialists can act on
Participate actively in code reviews and design discussions, raising concerns and offering constructive feedback
Leadership & Influence
Contribute to data and AI architecture decisions with thoughtful perspective on tradeoffs and long-term implications
Take ownership of meaningful work end-to-end, including the unglamorous parts of getting AI into production
Raise the bar on engineering practices through your own work and by supporting more junior engineers when opportunities arise
What You’ll Bring
Requirements
- ·5+ years professional software or data engineering experience, with 2+ years building data platforms and shipping AI/ML or agentic systems in production on AWS.
- ·Strong software engineering background (Python and SQL, or similar)
- ·AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate. Candidates without it are considered if there is a clear, near-term path to earning it
- ·Hands-on experience building data lakes on AWS, including S3, Lake Formation, Glue, Athena, and Iceberg or Parquet, with exposure to streaming on Kinesis or MSK
- ·Experience with observability for distributed and AI systems, including CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry/ADOT, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Grafana, and drift monitoring with SageMaker Model Monitor
Benefits
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How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Robots and Pencils, mentioning your remote working experience.
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