Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
Key Responsibilities:
Do you enjoy building the data backbone that powers intelligent applications?
As a Data Engineer on our AI team, you’ll architect and maintain scalable, secure, and efficient data pipelines that feed LLM models, RAG systems, and next-generation enterprise AI solutions. You’ll work at the heart of our AI infrastructure - designing data flows, integrating structured and unstructured sources, and enabling powerful downstream analytics and machine learning. Build, optimize, and maintain robust data pipelines to support AI model training, fine-tuning, and inference workflows. Collaborate with AI engineers and data scientists to support document processing, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and LLM-powered applications. Implement PostgreSQL and vector database integrations for real-time semantic search and embedding storage. Ensure high performance, availability, and quality of data workflows, with adherence to security and compliance standards. Support the deployment and operations of data solutions across cloud platforms.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Proven experience in leading AI engineering initiatives.
- Strong expertise in Cloud & Virtualization as well as multiple Programming Languages to implement AI solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to innovate and solve complex technical problems.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills to effectively manage teams and liaise with clients.
- Familiarity with project-based work environments and adhering to timelines.
Critical Skills: Python, PostgreSQL, RAG, Document Processing, Data Engineering Tools, Azure or AWS Cloud Services, Prompt Engineering, Docker, Workflow and Orchestration Skills
Nice to Have: ML and LLM Knowledge, Vector Databases, Monitoring & Logging Tools, General AI/ML, AI Agents, CI/CD for ML, LangChain, RAG, Security and Privacy Handling, Data Annotation & Labeling Tools
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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What We Do
Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale.
Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise.
Our business has more than tripled over the last three years.
We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
