What's the role?
We are looking for an AI Data Engineer to join Marketing & Sales Data Infrastructure team.
In this role, you’ll be working on use case driven by the AI Accelerator team.
In the age of Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Model Context Protocols (MCP), the Data Engineer plays a pivotal role in enabling intelligent systems to reason, act, and adapt based on rich, contextual data.
You will build and maintain high-performance data pipelines and context-aware data systems that fuel autonomous agents and LLMs with precision, relevance, and scale.
This role requires a blend of traditional data engineering expertise with a deep understanding of how data is consumed by AI agents through protocols like MCP, enabling dynamic context injection, memory retrieval, and real-time adaptation.
You will collaborate closely with our existing Data Engineering teams and in-house Data Scientists, acting as a bridge between data sources and the advanced analytics and AI solutions being built.
Who is Hilti?
At Hilti, we are a passionate global team committed to making construction better. As a trusted partner for productivity, safety, and sustainability, we provide our customers innovative solutions that impact the buildings, roads, and infrastructure people rely on every day.
Hilti is where individuals grow lasting careers by exploring possibilities, maximizing their potential, owning their development, and making a real difference every day.
What does the role involve?
- Data Preparation & Transformation: Clean, structure, and optimize datasets; build pipelines to ingest and serve trustworthy data for AI/ML applications.
- GenAI Optimization: Develop pipelines for GenAI use cases like RAG, fine-tuning, and prompt enrichment.
- Contextual Data Engineering: Build systems supporting Model Context Protocols for dynamic context injection into LLMs and agents.
- Data Governance & Documentation: Ensure compliance and data quality through contracts, lineage tracking, and clear documentation.
- Collaboration & Partnership: Work with Data Scientists and Engineering teams to align infrastructure with AI needs and strategies.
- Optimization & Scalability: Build scalable systems for large AI workloads and contribute to infrastructure decisions.
With five years of experience applying AI/ML to marketing and sales, our AI Accelerator is now focused on maximizing impact by leveraging the full spectrum of AI capabilities.
What do we offer?
At HDMS, Hilti Digital Marketing Services, you’ll thrive in a dynamic, internationally-minded environment where diverse perspectives fuel innovation and collaboration. We offer close-knit management, stimulating responsibilities, and a culture that balances autonomy with teamwork. You’ll be the owner of your professional development and will have the freedom to design your own career map. Our flexible remote work policy allows you to work from home up to 50% of the time. You’ll also benefit from a fully covered health insurance plan for you and your family at no cost for you, a competitive pension scheme, and an annual solidarity day to support causes that matter to you.
What you need is:
At least 5 years of experience in Data Engineering including contribution to GenAI projects
Fluency in English (required for our international environment).
Hard skills :
- Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, and distributed data frameworks.
- Fluency in using AI coding assistant like GitHub copilot, Claude code, Amazon Q developer, …
- Experience with GenAI infrastructure (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, RAG pipelines).
- Familiarity with MCP concepts and context management for LLMs.
- Hands-on experience with vector databases
- Knowledge of data mesh, data contracts, and modern governance practices.
- Familiar with cloud-native data platforms (e.g., AWS and Azure).
- Clear, concise communication with Data engineers, Data scientist, Product owner, and Data stakeholders.
- Pragmatic mindset: balances engineering rigor with delivery.
- Ownership: pushes features from design through production with measurable outcomes.
Why should you apply?
We’re investing more than ever in our digital transformation. As a company whose lifeblood is innovation, we give our customers the next level of digital offerings on an impressive global scale! For you, it means unrivalled opportunities to work and develop an international career and really have an impact on the shape of things to come.
Does this sound like you? We look forward to your application!
During your interviews, you will meet several members of the digital team including leadership. This way you get to know more about us, and we get to know more about you.
Tempted to apply? Click “apply now” and send us your resume (PDF in English version) today!
Do you want to know more? Go to https://careers.hilti.com/en/digital-marketing
*For non-EU citizens: Please state your eligibility status to work in France and note that if you do not own a valid work permit, Hilti cannot guarantee your final employment due to authority regulations.
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