AI/ML Engineer, Alation
£123.3-166.5k
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Office located in Redwood City, CA
Enterprise data intelligence solutions
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Enterprise data intelligence solutions
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
£123.3-166.5k
More information about location
Office located in Redwood City, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help businesses and institutions to get better value from their data, improving outreach and profit by combining human potential with modern data intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who enjoys coding, experimenting with large language models, and learning how to turn ideas into real-world systems
- 1 - 3 years of related experience in a startup or rapidly growing and evolving business
- B.S. in Computer Science or related field (M.S. in Computer Science or related field preferred)
- Strong Python fundamentals, with experience writing and debugging production-quality code
- Curiosity and an understanding of LLMs or AI system development — from prompting to evaluation
- Comfort working with SQL and relational data; familiarity with tools like Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift is a plus
- Interest in working across the full lifecycle — from problem framing and prototyping to testing and deployment
- Clear communication skills and an ability to collaborate with both engineers and non-technical teams
- A growth mindset — you like learning new frameworks, exploring ideas, and solving open-ended problems
Desirable
- Experience deploying AI or ML systems in production (e.g., observability, monitoring, and iterative improvement)
- Background in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or AI consulting roles
- Familiarity with data infrastructure and MLOps concepts — APIs, orchestration, containerization, and cloud environments
- Understanding of enterprise data governance and access control principles
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an AI/ML Engineer (Software Engineer II) who’s eager to build intelligent systems that help real businesses work smarter
- You’ll work closely with senior engineers and enterprise customers to design and prototype AI applications powered by Alation’s data ecosystem
- You’ll get hands-on experience with modern AI frameworks while developing your skills in data, software engineering, and customer collaboration
- One more thing...we work in a hybrid model—you’ll join us in our Redwood City office to collaborate, connect, and enjoy a team atmosphere!
- Prototype AI Agents: Experiment with modern LLM and agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, Pydantic-AI) — evaluate, benchmark, and refine performance with guidance from AI experts and researchers
- Collaborate with customers: Partner with technical stakeholders to understand real-world use cases and co-design practical solutions
- Build AI-powered applications: Develop agentic systems that combine structured data, language models, and automation to deliver measurable results
- Code with care: Write clean, well-structured Python code for integrations, pipelines, and intelligent systems
- Grow through teamwork: Work directly with product and platform teams to share insights from real deployments and help improve Alation’s AI platform
- Contribute reusable tools: Help create templates and patterns that speed up future implementations
Our take
While companies continue to gather huge volumes of data on customer behavior, efforts in leveraging said data are often hindered by data access and interpretation, which ultimately leads to incomplete datasets.
Alation is a machine learning powered data catalog. It pulls together all a company’s key data from popular sources like Oracle, Spark and Tableau, and presents it on its platform. This means that users can search for multiple strands of data on just one API. Its services include data governance, digital transformation, and data discovery.
With both the data catalog and data analytics market growing rapidly at a 25% annual growth rate, Alation finds itself in a very strong position having shown triple digit growth for four years running. The platform is used for diverse purposes by Pfizer, FinnAir, Pepsico, Salesforce, American Express and BMW.
It’s this range of applicability, from weather-induced flight delay prediction to rare disease identification, that has led to investments resulting in a valuation of $1.7B. Though it's not the only company of its ilk on the market, with the likes of Informatica, Aginity and Alteryx all competing, Alation’s rapid year-on-year growth, solid investment from the likes of Japanese data communications leader NTT DOCOMO and an elite customer base bodes well for the company's future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2022
$123m
SERIES E
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $315m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellness: health insurance; dental insurance; vision insurance; life insurance; short-term disability; long-term disability; wellness program; FSA account; HSA account; fitness subsidies
- Vacation and Time Off: paid vacation; paid holidays; personal/sick days; maternity leave; leave of absence
- Financial and Retirement: 401(k); company equity; performance bonus
- Professional Development: promote from within; lunch and learns
- Office Life: flexible work hours; remote work opportunities; commuter benefits program; casual dress; happy hours; snacks; some meals provided; company outings
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Satyen Sangani
(CEO)Having studied at Columbia, they worked at Morgan Stanley, Texas Pacific Group, and Andale, before an MSc at Oxford. They then worked as a VP at Oracle for over 9 years prior to co-founding Alation in July 2012.
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