Staff Data Engineer, AI Engineering
The Hershey Company3 months ago
Hershey, PA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the enterprise AI platform roadmap across Databricks, Azure ML, and related technologies.
- Evaluate, pilot, operationalize, and standardize new AI platform capabilities.
- Build and maintain governed AI infrastructure, including compute environments, deployment pipelines, monitoring solutions, feature stores, and AI services.
- Design secure, compliant, repeatable paved-road workflows for AI and machine learning development.
- Implement AI governance, risk, security, monitoring, auditability, access controls, and model governance practices.
- Develop self-service experiences for approved models, datasets, templates, tools, and AI services.
- Optimize platform performance and cloud spending through automation, usage analytics, resource management, and FinOps practices.
- Partner with governance, security, infrastructure, analytics, and business teams to support enterprise standards and AI adoption.
Requirements
- 3–5+ years of relevant experience in platform engineering, AI engineering, ML engineering, data engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related technical disciplines.
- Hands-on experience with Databricks, Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, or comparable enterprise AI/ML platforms.
- Experience implementing MLOps practices such as deployment, monitoring, automation, and lifecycle management.
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, distributed computing, infrastructure-as-code, and platform automation.
- Experience with data governance, security controls, RBAC, audit logging, metadata management, and compliance processes.
- Strong programming and automation skills using Python, SQL, APIs, and modern software engineering practices.
- Experience managing cloud costs and implementing FinOps practices for AI workloads.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Preferred qualifications include manufacturing, supply chain, retail, or CPG experience; self-service developer platform experience; exposure to generative AI, AI agents, and LLM orchestration frameworks; roadmap and adoption metric ownership; and familiarity with responsible AI, AI governance, and AI TRiSM principles.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage plus wellness programs.
- Annual incentive opportunities and a 401(k) with company match.
- Paid time off, company holidays, and flexible ways of working where applicable.
- Career development programs, learning opportunities, and internal mobility.
- Benefits vary based on role, location, and eligibility; the posting is marked onsite.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About The Hershey Company
The Hershey Company manufactures and markets confectionery and snack foods for consumers, selling through grocery, convenience, mass retail, and e-commerce channels. Its portfolio includes brands such as Hershey’s, Reese’s, KIT KAT, Ice Breakers, SkinnyPop, Dot’s Homestyle Pretzels, and Pirate’s Booty, with distribution in many countries. Founded in 1894 and headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, it is a publicly traded company on the NYSE (HSY).