Data Platform Engineer

Job Summary :

BharatGen is on a mission to create AI that truly represents the diversity, culture, and unique context of India. At the heart of this mission lies the need for robust, scalable infrastructure to build multilingual and multimodal datasets that power foundational AI models. We’re seeking a skilled Data Platform Engineer to build scalable tools, platforms, and pipelines tailored for processing large-scale, multilingual, multimodal datasets critical for foundational AI models.

In this role, you will build scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, and prepare data from diverse sources—text, speech, images, and video—making it ready for Generative AI model training. Your work will involve developing and managing the underlying platform while addressing challenges like governance, security, observability, lineage, and scalability. The outcomes of your work will include efficient tools for data processing, a reliable data platform, and high-quality datasets tailored to the evolving needs of large-scale AI and LLM training.

Collaborating closely with researchers and ML engineers, you will play a pivotal role in enabling BharatGen to deliver state-of-the-art AI models, contributing to the advancement of India’s AI ecosystem through innovative data engineering solutions.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and Build Scalable Platforms : Develop distributed infrastructure for ingesting, processing, and transforming diverse datasets (text, speech, images, video) at terabyte to petabyte scale.
• Develop Robust Data Pipelines : Create reliable, scalable pipelines to prepare datasets for Generative AI and LLM training.
• Implement Governance and Observability : Build frameworks for data lineage, monitoring, and access control to ensure data quality and operational reliability.
• Optimize Performance and Cost : Enhance platform performance and resource utilization using cost-effective strategies, including GPU-accelerated preprocessing.
• Collaborate and Innovate : Work closely with researchers and ML engineers to adapt platforms and data pipelines to evolving LLM requirements, addressing various data challenges.
• Drive Innovation : Stay updated on emerging tools, frameworks, and best practices to implement cutting-edge solutions for large-scale dataset creation.

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