Data & AI Engineer - 90408785 - Remote

Job Summary

Work Environment: Remote

About the Role

The Data & AI Engineer Specialist plays a key role in delivering Amtrak’s enterprise data and AI capabilities that enable data-driven decisions, automation, and innovation.

Essential Functions

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines, AI frameworks and integration workflows supporting analytics and AI applications.
• Implement data transformation, validation, and quality controls to ensure reliability and compliance with standards.
• Collaborate with architects, analysts, and data scientists to operationalize data models and business logic.
• Participate in agile planning, sprint delivery, and retrospectives to continuously improve team performance.
• Document technical specifications, lineage, and best practices for data assets and workflows.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• Experience: 2–4 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, integration, or software development.
• Licenses/Certifications: None required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data lakehouse or cloud data platforms.
• Familiarity with metadata management, lineage, and observability practices.
• Exposure to AI/ML pipeline development, automation frameworks, or MLOps concepts.
• Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities:
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL with strong foundations in data and AI architecture, including feature pipelines, model serving, and inference patterns.
  • Understanding of ETL/ELT concepts, APIs, and data pipeline orchestration.
  • Strong experience building federated data and feature models; performance tuning for analytics and AI workloads; designing reusable views and features; implementing caching, row-level security, and data contracts.
  • Experience working within cloud or hybrid data environments.
  • Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently and deliver high-quality results within an agile framework.
  • Effective collaboration and communication skills across technical and business stakeholders.

Pay and Benefits

The salary/hourly range is $72,000.00 – $93,312.00. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.

Depending on an employee’s assigned worksite or location, Amtrak may consider a geo-pay differential to be applied to the employee’s base salary.

In addition to your salary, Amtrak offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, and vision plans; health savings accounts; wellness programs; flexible spending accounts; 401K retirement plan with employer match; life insurance; short and long term disability insurance; paid time off; back-up care; adoption assistance; surrogacy assistance; reimbursement of education expenses; Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility; Railroad Retirement sickness and retirement benefits; and rail pass privileges.

Learn more about our benefits offerings here.

Requisition ID

166349

Work Arrangement

06-Onsite 4/5 Days

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Relocation Offered

No

Travel Requirements

Up to 25%

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision plans
• Health savings accounts
• Wellness programs
• Flexible spending accounts
• 401K retirement plan with employer match
• Life insurance
• Short and long term disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Back-up care
• Adoption assistance
• Surrogacy assistance
• Reimbursement of education expenses
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility
• Railroad Retirement sickness and retirement benefits
• Rail pass privileges

Equal Opportunity Employer

Amtrak is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/color, to include traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and hairstyles such as braids, locks and twists, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, such as lactation), national origin/ethnicity, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law.