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Associate Data Engineer 2027 - AI & Data Analytics

International Business Machines Corp
  • San Francisco, CA
    14 days ago

    Job Description

    As an Associate Data Engineer, you will help design, build, and improve data platforms, data products, and services that support analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI solutions. You will work across data gathering, ingestion, transformation, storage, batch and real-time processing, semantic enrichment, retrieval, APIs, visualization, data quality, observability, and governance.

    Collaborating closely with diverse teams, you will play an important role in selecting suitable data management systems and identifying the critical data needed for insightful analysis. As a Data Engineer, you will help tackle challenges related to database integration, data quality, and complex structured and unstructured datasets.

    Key Responsibilities may include:

    • Assisting designing and implementing scalable data architecture, data products, and management systems for modern cloud environments, analytics, and AI-enabled use cases.
    • Work on optimizing existing data pipelines, retrieval indexes, and data services for improved performance, reliability, data quality, and freshness of AI-ready context.
    • Collect, prepare, and analyze structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to identify trends, providing clients with actionable insights that enhance marketing, operational, and business practices.
    • Participate in troubleshooting data-related issues, working to solve data quality challenges, retrieval-quality gaps, processing failures, and inconsistencies affecting analytics, generative AI, or agentic workflows.
    • Create visually compelling and user-friendly dashboards, reports, and observability views to communicate findings, pipeline health, and AI system insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
    • Ensure data integrity, accuracy, reliability, lineage, and access control through rigorous data cleaning, validation, preprocessing, cataloging, and governance practices.
    • Work with project teams to prioritize and translate client requirements into current and future operational scenarios, processes, models, use cases, data products, APIs, tool interfaces, plans, and solutions; collaborate with clients, architects, and AI engineers.
    • Present analytical findings, data quality insights, and recommendations clearly and concisely, demonstrating the value of data-driven and AI-enabled decision-making to clients.
    • Work with cross-functional teams to tackle complex business problems, utilizing data expertise across cloud platforms, RAG, vector search, APIs, responsible AI, and agent orchestration patterns while staying current on modern data stack trends.

    Consulting And Collaboration Skills

    • Analyze business processes and application portfolios to identify where teams need better data, context, tools, automation, or process optimization.
    • Use Agile ways of working, planning, and project-management practices to deliver production-ready data and AI solutions.
    • Communicate with curiosity, clarity, and empathy; ask insightful questions about data meaning, risk, governance, and business impact.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSan Francisco, CA
    IndustryComputer/IT Services
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1911
    Websitehttp://www-03.ibm.com/employment/us/

    About Company

    At IBM, you don’t need a degree to shape the future. Just bring your skills—and your passion. To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate.

    Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. To lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems. Let’s get to work.

    Skills

    • Access Controlunmatched
    • Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Automationunmatched
    • Business Analysisunmatched
    • Business Operationsunmatched
    • Business Practicesunmatched
    • Business Processesunmatched
    • Cataloguingunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Consultingunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Customer/Client Researchunmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Data Cleaningunmatched
    • Data Collectionunmatched
    • Data Managementunmatched
    • Data Qualityunmatched
    • Data Recoveryunmatched
    • Data Setsunmatched
    • Data Visualizationunmatched
    • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
    • Identify Issuesunmatched
    • Machine Learningunmatched
    • Marketingunmatched
    • Multiplatform/Cross-Platformunmatched
    • Operations Processesunmatched
    • Performance Managementunmatched
    • Process Analysisunmatched
    • Process Improvementunmatched
    • Process Modelingunmatched
    • Product Managementunmatched
    • Project/Program Managementunmatched
    • Reliability Engineeringunmatched
    • Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
    • Riskunmatched
    • Structured Dataunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Trend Analysisunmatched
    • Unstructured Dataunmatched
    • Use Casesunmatched

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