Senior AI Data Pipeline Engineer

Shape the Future of Intelligence as our next Senior AI Data Pipeline Engineer!

Are you ready to build the backbone of next-generation AI? Trimble is looking for a visionary AI Data Pipeline Engineer to design and scale the sophisticated infrastructure that powers our global data-driven initiatives. You will play a critical role in transforming how the world moves, builds, and grows by engineering high-performance streaming architectures and production-ready AI workflows that deliver real-world impact.

About Us:

Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress.

AECO: The Trimble AECO segment provides digital construction solutions that increase precision and productivity for Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations.

What Makes This Role Great:

In this role, you will be the primary architect of our data evolution within the AECO segment, directly influencing the scalability of AI initiatives and shaping the future of digital construction technology. You will have the unique opportunity to move beyond traditional ETL, owning the deployment of containerized workloads in Kubernetes and integrating emerging AI tooling into production workflows that solve the world's most complex physical challenges.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize scalable batch and real-time data pipelines

• Manage and administer Databricks workspaces, clusters, jobs, and performance tuning

• Develop and maintain streaming architectures using Kafka

• Implement and manage Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines using Debezium connectors

• Deploy, monitor, and manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes

• Implement CI/CD practices for data engineering workflows

• Ensure data quality, observability, governance, and security best practices

• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and software engineers to deliver production-grade data solutions

• Support and optimize AI/ML data pipelines and model deployment workflows

• Troubleshoot production issues and implement performance improvements

Essential Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering or a related field

• Strong hands-on experience managing and optimizing Databricks

• Experience building and maintaining streaming pipelines with Kafka

• Experience implementing Change Data Capture (CDC) using Debezium connectors

• Practical experience deploying and operating services in Kubernetes

• Strong proficiency in Python and/or Scala

• Experience with SQL and distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark)

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, etc.)

• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts

Bonus Points For:

• Experience integrating AI/ML tooling into data pipelines

• Familiarity with MLOps practices

• Experience with LLM-based workflows, vector databases, or model serving platforms

• Knowledge of data lakehouse architectures

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools

Why You'll Love Working With Us

At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"—we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.

You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.

Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.

Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."

Data Engineering, AI Data Pipeline, Databricks, Kafka, Kubernetes, Debezium, Spark, Python, MLOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Terraform, CDC, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning Operations.

Compensation:  Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Bonus Eligible?

Commission Eligible?

Benefits:  Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.

Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.

At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under “Corporate Governance.”

Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.

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