Data Engineer, AI/NLP Engineering
International Data Group, Inc.1 month ago
Prague, CzechiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Manage and direct the day-to-day work of a small team of data engineers while continuing personal technical delivery.
- Build and operate production agentic AI workflows with tool calling, orchestration, memory, state management, and human-reviewed guardrails.
- Design evaluation harnesses measuring agent accuracy, latency, and cost efficiency.
- Implement retrieval-augmented generation against IDC’s proprietary intelligence assets.
- Build scalable NLP pipelines that ingest, parse, chunk, embed, and extract metadata and entities from millions of documents.
- Use LLMs and NLP models to extract insights from data assets.
- Work extensively in Claude Code and governed AI-powered development workflows, critically reviewing agent-generated plans.
- Assess solution feasibility using Python, SQL, and Snowflake and challenge technical proposals when appropriate.
- Manage stakeholder relationships, negotiate trade-offs, and secure specialist sign-off.
- Escalate unrealistic scope or timelines and communicate interim delivery options.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
- At least 2 years of experience in data science or AI/ML engineering.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience building and shipping agentic AI or LLM applications in production.
- Hands-on machine learning experience with Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, agent orchestration, tool calling, and MCP-based integration patterns.
- Strong applied Python, SQL, and Snowflake fundamentals.
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks for agent accuracy, latency, and cost efficiency.
- Understanding of agentic-system failure modes, including hallucination, drift, prompt injection, and runaway costs, and methods for mitigating them.
- People management experience directing and reviewing junior team members’ work.
- Ability to manage stakeholders, negotiate trade-offs, and exercise sound technical judgment.
- Willingness to travel up to 10%.
Benefits
- Full-time, permanent position in a hybrid model in the Czech Republic, based in Prague or Ostrava with 2–3 office days per week.
- Five weeks of holidays plus additional corporate days off.
- Flexibility to work from home most of the week and some flexibility in working hours.
- Sick days.
- Cafeteria points usable for Flexipasses, pension or life insurance, or a Multisport card.
- Meal allowance.
Categories
AI ApplicationsData Engineering
About International Data Group, Inc.
International Data Group, Inc. (IDG) provides technology market intelligence and B2B marketing solutions through two main businesses: IDC (research, data, and advisory) and Foundry (media, events, and marketing technology). Its revenue comes from subscriptions and data licenses, consulting, events, advertising, and SaaS marketing tools. Founded in 1964 and headquartered in Boston, the company is owned by Blackstone and operates well-known tech media brands such as Computerworld and PCWorld.