Senior Data Engineer – AI Data Infrastructure & Automation at Common Forge Ventures

5+ years in data engineering (or similar) with strong experience in Python (Pydantic a bonus), SQL, and orchestration frameworks. Proficiency with cloud data stacks (including GCP). Demonstrated ability to design or integrate AI/LLM agents for data collection, enrichment, or inference tasks. Track record of building structured data pipelines from unstructured sources, with error recovery, validation, and monitoring. Deep understanding of prompt engineering, function calling, embedding-based retrieval, and data labeling workflows. Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-team collaboration skills. You care deeply about your craft and maintain clean, scalable projects even when not directly supervised.