[Remote] Principal GenAI Data Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Principal GenAI Data Engineer will drive the design and implementation of enterprise-grade Generative AI data ingestion and platform architectures, focusing on architecting robust pipelines for enterprise data for AI workloads.ResponsibilitiesArchitect enterprise-scale GenAI data platforms for ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and serving of structured and unstructured dataDesign scalable pipelines for enterprise knowledge ingestion from diverse data sources including documents, SaaS platforms, knowledge bases, collaboration tools, and databasesDefine architecture for metadata extraction, chunking, enrichment, embeddings generation, and knowledge preparation workflowsDesign AI-ready data models and storage strategies for vector, graph, and hybrid knowledge systemsArchitect scalable unstructured data processing pipelines for text, images, PDFs, tables, and multimodal contentSkillsExpert-level Python programming and software engineering capabilitiesExperience building distributed/scalable data pipelines for AI workloadsStrong understanding of unstructured data extraction and processing pipelinesExperience with vector databases, graph databases, and metadata/knowledge storage systemsHands-on experience with clustering, entity recognition algorithms, and modern retrieval strategies (including RAG, search, and agentic AI workflows)Deep understanding of AI-ready data platform design principles and the ability to bridge platform/data engineering with GenAI/LLM application requirementsExperience with LLMOps / GenAIOps frameworks such as LangSmith, Evaluation Framework like Arize Phoenix, Weights & Biases, or MLflowFamiliarity with Agent Frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, or Google ADKBenefitsVarious health plansTime off plans for vacation and sick timeParental leave optionsRetirement optionsEducation reimbursementIn-office perks, and more!Company OverviewZscaler is a global cloud-based information security company that enables secure digital transformation for mobile and cloud. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.zscaler.com.Company H1B SponsorshipZscaler has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 19 in 2026, 164 in 2025, 220 in 2024, 108 in 2023, 144 in 2022, 82 in 2021, 51 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.