Job Summary:
MetroStar is a company focused on building exceptional teams and delivering outstanding technology services. The Associate Data Engineer will design and maintain scalable data pipelines and cloud-based data platforms, supporting advanced analytics and machine learning workloads while collaborating with AI/ML engineers.
Responsibilities:
• Design and implement data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment pipelines across multiple concurrent projects with varying data modalities (time-series sensor data, video, images, documents, and metadata).
• Develop and manage cloud-native data services including object storage workflows, vector database integration, and structured data warehousing to support multi-modal AI/ML systems.
• Work closely with AI/ML engineers to operationalize data pipelines that feed training, inference, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workloads in production.
• Establish data quality, lineage, and governance practices across projects that are maturing from prototype to product, bringing structure and repeatability to evolving data ecosystems.
• Support the processing and organization of unstructured data (video files, PDFs, technical manuals) into formats suitable for embedding generation, semantic search, and summarization.
• Present technical approaches and data architecture decisions to both technical teammates and non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Active US Government issued Secret Clearance, or the ability to obtain one
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field
• 0–2 years of experience in data engineering, data management, or database development
• Familiarity with relational databases, data modeling, and ETL processes
• Understanding of data quality principles and metadata management
• Ability to write and optimize SQL queries
• Exposure to data integration and interface management concepts
Company:
MetroStar is a leading provider of secure digital transformation and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled products and solutions, specializing in delivering cutting-edge IT services to government agencies and defense organizations. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Reston, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.