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Senior AI Data Contract Engineer

Velmox Data

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Amsterdam, Netherlands (UTC+1)

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AI Maritime Sanctions Evasion Pattern Analyst

Corvex Intelligence

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London, United Kingdom (UTC+0)

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AI Player Tracking Data Engineer

Trivon Data

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Madrid, Spain (UTC+1)

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AI Late-Arriving Data Reconciliation Engineer

Unvix Works

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Denver, United States (UTC-7)

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AI Learning-to-Rank Feature Engineer

Quelion Cloud

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Toronto, Canada (UTC-5)

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AI Multi-Repo Search Indexing Engineer

Navio Tech

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London, United Kingdom (UTC+0)

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AI Data Pipeline Escalation Playbook Generator

Unvix Works

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Los Angeles, United States (UTC-8)

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AI Security Alert Deduplication Engineer

Delven Labs

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New York, United States (UTC-5)

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AI Incident Severity Auto-Classifier Engineer

Evorra Systems

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New York, United States (UTC-5)

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Data Engineer (AI)

Delvio Solutions

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Berlin, Germany (UTC+1)

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Role guide

What to expect in remote Kafka jobs

Apache Kafka is the backbone of real-time data infrastructure at AI companies. Remote Kafka jobs involve building event streaming pipelines, designing topic architectures, and integrating Kafka with ML feature stores and streaming ML inference systems. Engineers who combine Kafka expertise with Python and ML pipeline knowledge are particularly in demand.

What you'll work on

  • Build real-time ML feature computation pipelines using Kafka Streams or ksqlDB
  • Design event-driven architectures that trigger ML inference at scale
  • Develop Kafka connectors to move data between databases and ML platforms
  • Implement exactly-once processing for financial or safety-critical AI systems

What companies look for

  • Kafka topic design — partitioning, retention, replication factor
  • Consumer group management and offset handling for reliable processing
  • Kafka Streams or ksqlDB for stream processing application development

Frequently asked questions

What remote Kafka jobs are available at AI companies?

Real-time data engineering and ML infrastructure roles where Kafka manages event streams. Most require Python alongside Kafka expertise and cloud platform (AWS MSK, Confluent Cloud) experience.

Do Kafka engineers need Spark knowledge for AI roles?

Often yes — particularly for roles combining batch and streaming processing. The Spark + Kafka combination is common in AI companies that need both real-time features and historical batch training data.

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