Forward Deployed Data Engineer - LATAM
Hilbert's AI · Remote · LATAM · Lima · Mexico City · São Paulo ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Founding engineer role
- Fully remote (LATAM)
- English & Spanish required
- ClickHouse + Snowflake
- Regular customer travel
Join Hilbert as a founding engineer in Latin America, working directly with B2C enterprises to deploy AI-driven growth engines. You will solve complex integration challenges, ensuring high-fidelity data access for AI agents across managed warehouses and customer-native environments.
This role blends deep technical architecture with customer partnership. You will define semantic layers, optimize data pipelines, and help establish the operational playbook for Hilbert’s expansion across the region.
What you'll do
- Own technical implementation for new enterprise customers in LATAM
- Architect hybrid deployments using ClickHouse or warehouse-native logic
- Build semantic definitions for custom data to support AI agents
- Use internal Discovery Agents to accelerate pipeline creation
- Transform diverse source data into unified growth models
- Define technical processes and best practices for the region
What you'll need
- Professional fluency in English and Spanish
- Strong skills in Python for data orchestration
- Expertise in SQL for Snowpark or BigQuery
- Experience optimizing ClickHouse queries
- Ability to translate business logic into data context
- Comfort working directly with enterprise data teams
Nice to have
- Proficiency in Portuguese
- Deep experience with dbt for modeling
- Knowledge of Cube or MetricQL frameworks
- Background in e-commerce or retail metrics
- Experience building agentic workflows
- History of building new regional engineering teams
Stack
- ClickHouse
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- Python
- Dagster
- Airbyte
- dbt
- Cube
How you'll work
- Starts fully remote within LATAM
- Regular travel for customer onboarding
- Collaboration with US and Europe teams
- Future relocation to a LATAM hub possible