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Data Quality Engineer Quality Engineering | Hybrid Austin, Texas
You know quality is more than a checkbox. Its the foundation of reliable, intelligent systems and without trusted data, nothing else works.
As the client expands their asset intelligence capabilities following a recent acquisition, theyre building scalable pipelines and deploying on-prem network sensors that dramatically improve asset visibility. This is a pivotal moment to join as a Data Quality Engineer, where your work will ensure that the data powering ML and analytics pipelines is consistently accurate, complete, and trusted.
Why This Role?
Youll join a high-performing Quality Engineering team focused on embedding testing and validation into every layer of data and ML pipeline development. This is a hands-on, technical role but one where your impact will be felt across the business, as the reliability of these systems is central to future growth.
Where Youll Make an Impact
You know quality is more than a checkbox. Its the foundation of reliable, intelligent systems and without trusted data, nothing else works.
As the client expands their asset intelligence capabilities following a recent acquisition, theyre building scalable pipelines and deploying on-prem network sensors that dramatically improve asset visibility. This is a pivotal moment to join as a Data Quality Engineer, where your work will ensure that the data powering ML and analytics pipelines is consistently accurate, complete, and trusted.
Why This Role?
Youll join a high-performing Quality Engineering team focused on embedding testing and validation into every layer of data and ML pipeline development. This is a hands-on, technical role but one where your impact will be felt across the business, as the reliability of these systems is central to future growth.
Where Youll Make an Impact
- Build automated data quality test frameworks across ML and analytics pipelines
- Implement and maintain end-to-end regression and integration tests in CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions)
- Deploy and test network sensors across multiple IT environments (TAP, SPAN, NETFLOW, etc.)
- Validate integration of Redjacks pipelines with the wider architecture of the acquiring company
- Design monitoring dashboards, anomaly detection pipelines, and alerts for proactive quality management
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to co-design test plans and evolve testing strategies
- Create test coverage across structured and unstructured data in production ML systems
- 4 years experience in Quality Engineering, ML Test Automation or Data Quality
- Proficiency in Python and SQL to build validation tools and test frameworks
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and orchestration tools (Airflow, MLflow, Kubeflow, GitHub Actions)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems (e.g. Kafka, APIs) and cloud infrastructure (AWS S3, Snowflake, BigQuery)
- Familiarity with data quality and validation frameworks such as Great Expectations, dbt, or Deequ
- Exposure to Rust or networking environments
- Experience with mocking libraries (Mockito, mountebank)
- Containerisation and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Multi-cloud familiarity: AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Competitive salary aligned with Austin market benchmarks
- Health insurance, paid time off, and hybrid working (must be Austin-based)
- Career growth within a scaling, global software organisation focused on AI and data intelligence
- Dedicated budget for continuous learning across AI reliability, data governance, and QE