Principal Engineer - Data Engineering

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Principal Engineer - Data Engineering in Others

Western Digital
Full time
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10/07/2026
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Singapore, Singapore

Responsibilities

Build and maintain versioned feature engineering pipelines for engineering, sensor, and operational data.
Design and operate data quality checks for completeness, schema consistency, distribution stability, and label accuracy.
Implement data versioning, lineage tracking, reproducible training datasets, and deployment-data drift detection.
Implement data contracts, access controls, and retention practices under established governance guidance.
Contribute to real-time sensor-data ingestion and progressively assume operational ownership over 6–12 months.
Build infrastructure supporting synthetic data generation, including ingestion, storage, and versioning.
Maintain the training dataset registry, feature store, and model input validation integrated with the AI platform.

Requirements

Bachelor's or master's degree in AI, Computer Science, Data Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field; an AI major is preferred.
Fresh to 1 year of experience, with end-to-end data pipeline project experience from academic, personal, or internship contexts accepted.
Strong, demonstrable Python and SQL proficiency, including complex queries, window functions, and data transformation logic.
Knowledge of scalable batch pipeline architecture, reliability, schema management, fault tolerance, and pipeline orchestration.
Understanding of data quality checks, data versioning, lineage, ML data lifecycles, train/test leakage, and label-quality impacts on model accuracy.
Preferred experience with Feast, Tecton, VAE, GANs, diffusion models, dbt, DLT, Label Studio, CVAT, MES/LIMS integration, active learning loops, Iceberg, Dremio, AWS Glue, AWS Lake Formation, or Redshift.

Benefits

Work location: Singapore office.

Western Digital

Western Digital designs and manufactures data storage devices and platforms, including hard disk drives and solid-state drives, for consumer electronics, enterprises, and hyperscale data centers. The public company, founded in 1970 and headquartered in San Jose, sells under the Western Digital an...

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