Founding Data Engineer

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/ €115842.31 - €208516.15 annum

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€115842.31 - €208516.15

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Permanent

Founding Data Engineer | AI Startup

Barcelona - Hybrid

Up to £180,000 + Equity

Want to work on the cutting edge of AI research while living in one of Europe's most vibrant cities? I'm hiring for a Data Engineer to join a high-calibre engineering and research team building the world's most advanced Large Tabular Model-a foundation model designed to transform predictive analytics across industries like finance, healthcare, and advertising.

You'll be part of the founding data team, working alongside ex-DeepMind, INRIA, and École Polytechnique researchers to create the robust, scalable data infrastructure that powers next-generation machine learning models.


Why You'll Love This Role

  • Highly competitive salary + meaningful equity package

  • Live and work in Barcelona, with a beach-front office overlooking the Mediterranean

  • Collaborate with leading AI experts on breakthrough technology

  • Join at an early stage with huge growth potential

  • Work on data at scale for cutting-edge model training


What You'll Be Doing

  • Identify, evaluate, and characterise high-value data sources

  • Design and maintain ETL pipelines for large-scale datasets

  • Build scalable, reliable data storage solutions optimised for ML training

  • Collaborate with researchers to ensure efficient, reliable training pipelines

  • Partner with infrastructure teams to integrate new datasets and maintain performance


What You'll Bring

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals

  • Solid Python skills and clean coding practices

  • Experience with the Python data stack (NumPy, Pandas)

  • Familiarity with distributed processing frameworks (Ray, Dask, Spark, Beam)

  • Knowledge of data storage systems and architecture best practices

  • Basic understanding of machine learning workflows


Nice to Have

  • Contributions to open-source ML projects

  • BSc/MSc/PhD in Computer Science or Machine Learning

  • Experience with tabular data or predictive analytics


Interested?
If you want to be part of a world-class AI team at an early stage-where your work on data pipelines and storage will directly fuel groundbreaking research-apply today or reach out for a confidential chat.

CONTACT

Michael Bellchambers

Senior Recruitment consultant

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