Ai Data Engineer

Job DescriptionThis is a remote position.

Shuru is an AI-native engineering services company building products with leading startups, enterprises, and well-funded scale-ups across India, Southeast Asia, the UAE, and global markets. Our engineers work in small, dedicated squads, ship in weekly cycles, and use AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot as a standard part of how we build. We hire for fundamentals, give engineers real ownership, and back them with a culture that respects deep work.

We are looking for a Data Engineer who can build reliable, scalable data pipelines and gradually transition into developing AI and voice-agent solutions. This role is ideal for someone with strong data engineering fundamentals and a keen interest in Generative AI, LLMs, and conversational systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data workflows.
• Integrate structured and unstructured data from APIs, databases, and third-party platforms.
• Build and manage data warehouses, data lakes, and real-time processing systems.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, security, and monitoring.
• Prepare data for AI, analytics, and machine-learning use cases.
• Gradually contribute to voice-agent workflows, including speech-to-text, text-to-speech, LLM integrations, and conversation analytics.
• Collaborate with AI, product, and engineering teams to develop production-ready AI solutions.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, data modelling, and workflow orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of tools such as Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks.
• Understanding of APIs, microservices, and real-time data processing.
• Strong interest in learning and working with LLMs, voice AI, and agentic workflows within the next six months.