Hire a Data Engineer in the USA
AX3 direct-hires data engineers into permanent US roles — lakehouse, streaming and warehouse specialists who build the pipelines analytics and AI actually depend on. Candidates are screened by the AX3 data practice on modelling judgement and production reliability, not tool lists, and a calibrated shortlist typically arrives within about 21 days. Every placement carries AX3's 90-day replacement guarantee: it covers voluntary resignation and termination for cause within 90 days of start date, and AX3 provides a replacement search at no additional placement fee — not a refund.
Talk to AX3 about a direct hireWhat a data engineer owns
A data engineer builds and operates the ingestion, transformation and serving layers that everything downstream sits on — dashboards, forecasting models, and increasingly the retrieval layer behind AI assistants. The hard part is rarely writing a pipeline; it is designing models that survive schema change and keeping freshness and cost predictable as volume grows.
Permanent hiring matters here because pipelines are owned, not delivered. A contractor can build a lakehouse; only an employee is around when a source system changes at 2am on quarter close.
90-day replacement guarantee: Covers voluntary resignation and termination for cause within 90 days of start date. AX3 provides a replacement search at no additional placement fee — not a refund.
Pipeline engineering
Batch and streaming ingestion, orchestration, and transformation with tested, version-controlled logic.
Lakehouse and warehouse
Databricks, Snowflake and cloud-native warehouse modelling, partitioning and cost control.
Data quality and contracts
Freshness, completeness and schema-change handling enforced before consumers notice.
AI-ready data
Governed, documented datasets and vector-ready stores that AI and analytics teams can trust.
Onshore coverage, coast to coast.
- California — Bay Area, San Jose, Santa Clara
- Texas — Austin, Dallas, Houston
- New York — New York City and Tri-State
- Illinois — Chicago and the Midwest
- Michigan — Detroit and the automotive corridor
- Massachusetts — Boston and Route 128
- Nationwide / US-remote
Onshore permanent, or offshore contract?
Looking for contract or offshore delivery instead? The India page covers contract, contract-to-hire and dedicated remote data pods on AX3's payroll.
Hire a Data Engineer — IndiaWhere this hire fits at AX3.
Hire a Data Engineer in the USA — frequently asked questions
What stack do AX3's US data engineer candidates work in?
Most commonly Databricks or Snowflake with dbt, Airflow or equivalent orchestration, Spark and cloud-native services on AWS, Azure or GCP. AX3 calibrates the shortlist to your existing stack rather than presenting whoever is available.
How fast can AX3 shortlist a data engineer in the USA?
About 21 days from brief to a calibrated shortlist or offer. Typical timeline; actual search length varies by role complexity and market — streaming-heavy or regulated-industry roles take longer.
Is this different from hiring a data scientist or AI engineer?
Yes. A data engineer builds and operates the pipelines and models the data itself; a data scientist builds statistical and ML models on top of that data. AX3 direct-hires both, and will say plainly at brief stage which one your problem actually needs.
What does the 90-day replacement guarantee cover?
Covers voluntary resignation and termination for cause within 90 days of start date. AX3 provides a replacement search at no additional placement fee — not a refund.
Talk to AX3 about a data engineer hire
Share the stack, the volume and the consumers downstream. Shortlists are screened by engineers who have built the same thing.