Abaka AI
Multimodal Data Engineer
$120K–$225K
Mountain View HQ · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in data engineering or building large-scale data systems.
About the job
Build and operate end-to-end systems and workflows for delivering high-quality multimodal datasets to AI teams.
What you'll do
- Assess project feasibility and define execution plans, quality specifications, resources, and acceptance criteria.
- Own technical delivery from scoping through handoff, coordinating engineers, annotation teams, and vendors.
- Build and improve scalable data pipelines, quality controls, infrastructure, and internal tools.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of experience in data engineering or large-scale data systems, with hands-on ownership of production data workflows.
- Experience delivering datasets or data systems end to end, including scope, timeline, quality, cost, and acceptance criteria.
- Hands-on experience with at least two data modalities, such as text, images, audio, video, or 3D point clouds.
- Experience with large-scale pipelines using distributed processing tools, orchestration tools, cloud object storage, and containerized batch compute.
Nice to have
- Experience preparing pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, or evaluation datasets for LLMs or multimodal foundation models.
- Experience with autonomous driving, robotics, embodied AI, or other sensor-based data.
Pay
$120,000 – $225,000 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Spark, Ray, Flink, Airflow, Dagster, Argo
AI focus
Supports AI data workflows, including preparing datasets for foundation models; preferred work includes pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, evaluation, and model-assisted quality control.
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