Expedia

AI Engineer III

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Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve complex, business-critical data products from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and production support.
  • Design and integrate scalable services, APIs, and data models for human and AI-system consumption.
  • Build, consume, and evolve batch and streaming data pipelines.
  • Apply AI tools across the software development lifecycle to support requirements clarification, design exploration, coding, testing, and operational reliability.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, data, and business stakeholders on cross-team designs and trade-offs.
  • Lead technical workstreams that improve simplicity, performance, reliability, or developer productivity.
  • Mentor earlier-career engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent related professional experience.
  • At least 5 years of relevant professional experience.
  • Experience owning data products and delivering significant end-to-end services or products within a domain.
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java or Scala, along with strong computer science fundamentals.
  • Hands-on experience with low-level system design, API design, and data modeling.
  • Experience working with batch and streaming data pipelines.
  • Preferred experience designing reliable, scalable cloud systems and contributing to service boundaries, resilience, and operational practices.
  • Preferred experience using AI tools and techniques in everyday software engineering work and applying sound human-review judgment.
  • Preferred experience developing frameworks for AI-driven coding agents, including MCP and spec-driven development methodologies.
  • Preferred experience defining AI governance practices and working with Spark, Kafka, Flink, Cassandra, Scylla, and Iceberg.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate across disciplines and lead technical workstreams spanning multiple teams.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Paid time off and an Employee Assistance Program.
  • Wellness and travel reimbursement.
  • Travel discounts and International Airlines Travel Agent Network membership.
  • Austin-based role with compensation and benefits determined partly by location, budget, knowledge, skills, and experience.

Tech Stack

Apache CassandraApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkJavaScala

Categories

Data Engineering
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