Senior Data Engineer

Location/Office: Raffles Quay

Working hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm (Hybrid)

Compensation: Basic Salary + Performance bonus

Responsibilities

• Data ingestion: Multi-source scraping and integration, stable and schedulable
• Document parsing: Structured extraction from PDF / HTML / XBRL formats, including image-based PDFs, complex tables, and bilingual (Chinese/English) documents
• Data warehouse design & implementation: Schema design and maintenance using modern cloud warehouses (Snowflake / BigQuery / Postgres)
• Pipeline orchestration & monitoring: Production-grade ETL on Airflow / Prefect / Dagster, with data quality checks, alerts, and lineage tracking
• LLM application layer:
• Use of OpenAI / Anthropic APIs + open-source models
• Structured outputs, retrieval-augmented generation
• Basic evaluation and quality monitoring
• Backend services: Query APIs via FastAPI, serving downstream analyst tools
• Cloud infrastructure: GCP / AWS, leveraging managed services to minimize operational burden

Requirements

• At least 5-10 years of production engineering experience, having built complete online system.
• Strong Python and SQL skills experience in data modeling, testing, and performance tuning
• Hands-on experience parsing real-world messy documents (PDF, HTML, XBRL)
• 2-3 years of production LLM application experience, with deployment track record
• Familiarity with at least one orchestration framework (Airflow / Prefect / Dagster)
• Experience with schema design in at least one modern cloud data warehouse
• Strongly preferred: founding engineer experience, building end-to-end data systems in early AI startups
• Strong communication skills for direct collaboration with research and founding teams
• Professional working proficiency in English

Nice-to-Have

• Experience building data infrastructure supporting NLP / LLM workloads
• Hands-on dbt experience
• Multi-tenant / access control design experience
• Introductory knowledge of graph databases (Neo4j)

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