Data Engineer
Data Platform & Engineering
- Build and maintain reliable data pipelines using tools such as Airbyte, Snowflake, and dbt.
- Design and optimize scalable data models that support analytics, reporting, search, and AI-powered applications.
- Develop and maintain dbt models, testing frameworks, documentation, and deployment processes.
- Ensure data quality, reliability, governance, and operational excellence across the data platform.
- Take direction from Senior staff to learn and support standard work and best practices.
AI Application Development
- Build and enhance AI-powered applications that securely retrieve, interpret, and summarize business information.
- Design retrieval, context-management, prompt-engineering, and tool-calling approaches that improve accuracy, transparency, and user trust.
- Develop agent-based workflows that can complete multi-step business processes using approved tools and systems.
- Create APIs, services, and integrations that connect AI applications with internal platforms and business systems.
- Gain an understanding of business use of the AI agents and provide feedback for ensuring valuable results to users.
Operations & Collaboration
- Monitor system health, application performance, data quality, AI usage, and operational costs.
- Troubleshoot issues across data pipelines, warehouse transformations, software services, and AI workflows.
- Apply security, access control, testing, logging, and governance best practices throughout the development lifecycle.
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable and maintainable solutions.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity while maintaining high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation.
What You Bring?
Required Qualifications
- Experience in software engineering, data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong SQL skills and proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably Python.
- Experience building and supporting cloud-based data warehouses and production data pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake and dbt.
- Experience with data integration or ingestion tools such as Airbyte.
- Experience developing applications that use large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool calling, or agent-based workflows.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex, or similar platforms.
- Understanding of APIs, source control, automated testing, CI/CD, and modern software engineering practices.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot across interconnected systems.
- Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate with both technical and business stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Snowflake Cortex or other enterprise AI/LLM platforms.
- Experience designing semantic layers, metadata systems, or governed retrieval architectures.
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation frameworks, observability tools, token-cost optimization, and response quality monitoring.
- Experience implementing role-based access controls, data governance standards, and data privacy protections.
- Experience supporting internal applications from early-stage prototypes through enterprise-scale production adoption.
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About UsFortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
About the TeamSkills Required
- Experience in software engineering, data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Strong SQL skills and proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably Python
- Experience building and supporting cloud-based data warehouses and production data pipelines
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake and dbt
- Experience with data integration or ingestion tools such as Airbyte
- Experience developing applications using LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, or agent-based workflows
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex, or similar platforms
- Understanding of APIs, source control, automated testing, CI/CD, and modern software engineering practices
- Strong problem-solving skills for troubleshooting interconnected systems
- Effective communication and collaboration with technical and business stakeholders
- Experience with Snowflake Cortex or other enterprise AI/LLM platforms
- Experience designing semantic layers, metadata systems, or governed retrieval architectures
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation frameworks, observability tools, token-cost optimization, and response quality monitoring
- Experience implementing role-based access controls, data governance standards, and data privacy protections
- Experience supporting internal applications from prototypes through enterprise-scale production adoption
Fortive Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fortive and has not been reviewed or approved by Fortive.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is fully paid for 12 weeks for all parents, with fertility coverage via Progyny and generous adoption/surrogacy support. Backup child and adult care plus inclusive eligibility extend support across diverse family structures.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple PPO and HSA medical options include telemedicine and second-opinion services, alongside robust mental-health access through Spring Health with no‑cost therapy sessions. The breadth of medical and behavioral health resources is highlighted as a strength.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) provides a competitive employer match each pay period, with an additional company retirement contribution after one year of service. Financial wellness tools and an employee stock purchase plan further bolster long‑term savings.
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What We Do
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions. We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions. We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact. At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference. At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone. At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating. Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
