AI Data Engineer

Company Description

Omio’s vision is to enable people to travel seamlessly anywhere, anyway. We are bringing all  global transport into a single distribution system and creating end-to-end magical consumer journeys.

With Omio you can compare and book trains, buses, ferries and flights anywhere in Europe, the US, and Canada with one simple search, on mobile, app or desktop. By offering transparent pricing and easy booking, Omio makes travel planning simple, flexible and personal.

Omio is the largest source of inventory, with 1000+ suppliers operating in 39 countries. Our brands also include Rome2Rio for global discovery, while Omio powers ticketing and journeys, which attract 900m+ users every year. Our offices are based in Berlin, Singapore Prague, Melbourne, Brazil, Bangalore, and London.  

We are a growing team of more than 400 passionate employees from more than 50 countries who share the same vision: to create a single tool to help send travelers almost anywhere in the world.

Omio is building the future of travel. We’re moving from manual, rule-based systems to AI-driven systems to enhance revenue, efficiency, and competitiveness. The new hub in Singapore is at the forefront of this transformation, driving AI-led innovation and enabling us to scale intelligent solutions for customers across the world. As we make this transition, we’re looking for a Founding AI Engineer based in Singapore who can both build cutting-edge solutions and champion this shift within the company by integrating AI workflows across critical business areas.

Job Description

Omio is rapidly driving our transformation to being an AI-first company. This touches every aspect of how our products work, how we integrate with our suppliers and how we work internally to optimise our teams for quality delivery at speed.

Sitting within our data architecture and engineering team, this role will take the lead on our internal focus, charting the course and delivering the technology to integrate our many business systems into an integrated whole and providing new agentic workflows to streamline and even completely re-invent our business processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead on the design and implementation of data models and semantics to drive a scalable, performant platform for AI applications and our internal business processes.

• Contribute to the evolution of our core AI Models in conjunction with our AI Engineering team.

• Establish effective agentic integrations with upstream data providers, including effective prompt engineering and interpretation / disaggregation.

• Collaborate with data scientists, business analysts, and other stakeholders to understand analytics requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Implement ETL processes to extract, transform, and load data from diverse sources into our data warehouse.

• Provide technical expertise and guidance to junior members of the analytics engineering team.

• Stay up to date on industry best practices and emerging technologies in analytics and data engineering.

• Communicate complex technical concepts and insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Our technology stack:

• ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude

• GCP (BigQuery, GCS, PubSub, DataProc, etc)

• Spark

• Airflow, dbt

• Looker

• Terraform

• Java, Scala, Python

• Docker, k8s

Qualifications

Skills and experience

• Demonstrated experience in implementing AI agents for business productivity and also commercial applications across a range of technologies and use-cases.

• Strong data engineering fundamentals

  • Data engines

  • Data models

  • SQL

  • Pipeline development (e.g. Airflow, dbt)

• Solid understanding of machine learning concepts, including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning paradigms, with hands-on experience in enabling them through scalable data and orchestration pipelines.

• Experience integrating LLMs with context retrieval systems (e.g., RAG pipelines using vector databases or semantic search tools).

• Familiarity with open-source AI tools like LangChain, LLM orchestration frameworks, embedding stores, or LLM Ops platforms.

• Strong programming in Python (with libraries like scikit-learn, transformers, LangChain, or Ray RLlib).

• Keen communication skills and the ability to address technical and non-technical audiences.

• 5+ years experience as an Analytics Engineer or related functions

• 2+ years experience working specifically with AI applications.

• Experience in large-scale data processing. You have queried tables with hundreds of Terabytes before and know your way in writing the most effective queries.

• Strong expertise in cloud-based data warehouses like Google BigQuery

• Fluency in English verbal and written skills

Additional Information

Learn more about Omio Engineering and our Team:

• https://medium.com/omio-engineering

Here at Omio, we know that no two people are alike, and that’s a great thing. Diversity in culture, thought and background has been key to growing our product beyond borders to reach millions of users from all over the world. That’s why we believe in giving equal opportunity to all, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age or disability.

Hiring process and background checks
At Omio, we work in partnership with Giant Screening, once a job offer has been accepted, Giant will be engaged to carry out background screening. Giant will reach out to you via email and occasionally via telephone/text message so that they can gather all relevant information required. Consent will be requested prior to any information being passed to our services company.

What’s in it for you? #LifeatOmio

Omio encourage you to apply even if you’re still developing some of these skills! We value diversity and welcome all applicants regardless of ethnicity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability.