Data Engineer - AI Practice Team

Job description

ABS is seeking an exceptional Data Engineer to join us full-time on our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Practice Team. In this role, you will design and operate the data foundations that power AI chat assistants, custom AI models, and AI-driven process optimization for ABS Consulting clients. You will build robust pipelines that integrate structured and unstructured data, standardize and tag enterprise content, and enable scalable, low-latency retrieval for AI workloads. Location: This position can be based in Houston, Texas; Knoxville, Tennessee; or Washington, DC. What You Will Do: - Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, clean, and transform structured and unstructured data for AI assistants and custom models. - Integrate diverse knowledge repositories (documents, policies, procedures, standards, databases) into centralized data platforms that support retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and search. - Implement data standardization, normalization, and tagging pipelines to align content with enterprise taxonomies and ontologies. - Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to productionize model-ready datasets, feature stores, and embeddings for prediction, classifi...