Fivetran
Staff R&D Software Engineer, Fivetran AI
USA - Austin (dbt) · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- Fivetran is looking for a Staff R&D Software Engineer to join our fast-growing Fivetran AI team.
- This role goes well beyond standard engineering.
- You'll research emerging techniques in the fast-moving AI landscape and bring real product and market understanding to decide which ideas are worth pursuing - and then you'll take what you've learned and ship it as production software.
Responsibilities
- Define technical direction that spans multiple teams within Fivetran AI, ensuring architecture decisions made in one area don't create problems in another
- Build and maintain both back-end and front-end systems for the Fivetran AI product - from Agents Schema pipelines to the Context Catalog UI
- Use coding agents to automate the repetitive parts of the job, freeing up time for the research and design work that needs a human
- Drive the AISQL capability forward: natural language to SQL grounded in dbt metric definitions, executed natively against the warehouse
- Considered a trusted expert beyond your own team, able to exert influence and define technical direction across multiple teams
Requirements
- With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required.
- it must be explicitly codified, governed, and traceable.
Skills
- 8+ years of programming experience across Python and/or Java, with the ability to move fluidly between back-end and front-end work
- Comfortable reading AI/ML research and turning promising findings into working prototypes, then production systems
Company info
- Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.
- Together, we're delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data - from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on.
- Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights.
- Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.
- As we bring our teams and technology together, we're building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust.
- It's an exciting time to join us:
- we're creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.
- During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.
- It's an exciting time to join us: we're creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.
- Fivetran and dbt
- Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission:
- helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.
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