Sr. AI/ML Data Engineer

Since opening our first self-storage facility in 1972, Public Storage has grown to become the largest owner and operator of self-storage facilities in the world. With thousands of locations across the U.S. and Europe, and more than 170 million net rentable square feet of real estate, we're also one of the largest landlords.

We've been recognized as A Great Place to Work by the Great Place to Work Institute. And, our employees have also voted us as having Best Career Growth, ranked us in the Top 5% for Work Culture, and in the Top 10% for Diversity and Inclusion.

We're a member of the S&P 500 and FT Global 500. Our common and preferred stocks trade on the New York Stock Exchange.

**Sponsorship for Work Authorization is not available for this posting.  Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring sponsorship now or in the future**

Overview

Public Storage is the world's best owner and operator of self-storage facilities, serving millions of customers across 3,000+ locations. Public Storage's Data and AI organization operates like a high-velocity startup inside the enterprise—modern cloud stack, rapid iteration, small expert teams, and direct impact on revenue-critical decisions every day. Our platform is built on Google Cloud (BigQuery, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub, DataFlow, Cloud Run, GKE/Terraform), dbt cloud, Airflow/Cloud Composer, and modern CI/CD practices. We build solutions that driver significant business impact across both digital and physical. Engineers on our team work end-to-end: designing systems, shipping production workloads, influencing architecture, and shaping how AI is applied at national scale.

We build for both short and long-term – we are a dynamic, high-velocity engineering team that moves quickly from idea to production. This is a role for someone who wants to own key parts of the data & ML platform, make immediate impact, and thrive in an environment where requirements evolve, decisions matter, and results are visible. 

You are a passionate, full-stack data & ML engineer who loves to write code, build systems, fun and spirited debates about the "right" architecture for the specific use case.  In addition to tech skills, we believe in teaching the soft leadership skills you need to advance your career over the long term.

Data Engineering & Pipeline Development (Primary) (60%)

• Architect, build and maintain batch and streaming pipelines using BigQuery, dbt, Airflow/Cloud Composer, and Pub/Sub
• Define and implement layered data models, semantic layers, and modular pipelines that scale as use-cases evolve
• Establish and enforce data-quality, observability, lineage, and schema governance practices
• Drive efficient BigQuery design (clustering, partitioning, cost-awareness) for structured tabluar data primarily and unstructured data (web logs, call center transcripts, images/videos etc) when the use case requires it.
• Leverage ML/DS capabilities in BQML for anomaly detection and disposition
• You will be accountable for delivering reliable, performant pipelines that enable downstream ML and analytics

ML/AI Platform Engineering (20%)

• Transform prototype notebooks / models into production-grade, versioned, testable Python packages
• Deploy and manage training and inference workflows on GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Vertex AI) with CI/CD, version tracking, rollback capabilities
• Evaluate new products from GCP or vendors; build internal toolkits, shared libraries and pipeline templates that accelerate delivery across teams
• You will enable the ML team to ship faster with fewer failure-modes

Applied AI & Real-Time Decisioning (20%)

• Support real-time, event‐driven inference and streaming feature delivery for mission-critical decisions such as but not limited to real time recommendation systems, dynamice A/B testing and agentic AI interfacing
• Contribute to internal LLM-based assistants, retrieval-augmented decision models, and automation agents as the platform evolves
• Implement model monitoring, drift detection, alerting, and performance tracking frameworks

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with data scientists and engineers to operationalize models, semantic layers and pipelines into maintainable production systems
• Work with pricing, digital product, analytics, and business teams to stage rollouts, support experiments and define metric-driven success
• Participate in architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and drive technical trade-offs with clarity

• MS in CS + 4+ years experience or BS in CS + 6+ years experience.
• 3+ years hands-on building data pipelines in a code-first environment (Python, SQL, dbt)
• At least 1 year experience in real-time or event-driven systems (Pub/Sub, DataFlow batch/streaming frameworks)
• At least 2 years owning technical decisions or leading engineering direction
• Demonstrated expert proficiency in:
  • SQL & BigQuery (schema design, query performance, modeling)
  • dbt (semantic modeling, macros, testing frameworks)
  • Airflow/Cloud Composer (DAG patterns, retries, alerting, SLAs)
  • GCP fundamentals (IAM, networking, container deployments)
  • Python (structure, testing, packaging)
• You can explain why you chose a data model, how you improved it, what it mattered and how you measured it

Preferred Experience

• GCP or AWS cloud experience
• Experience with ML monitoring or platform tooling (MLflow, Evidently, Vertex AI)
• Knowledge of semantic search, vector embeddings, or LLM orchestration (RAG workflows)
• Domain familiarity in pricing, recommendations, forecasting or large-scale customer analytics
• Awareness of geospatial data / map-based modeling (nice to have)
• Some JavaScript experience (for lightweight UI/prototyping)

Why This Role Will Excite You

• You'll work in a fast-moving environment where decisions aren't put on hold and you'll see your work drive real business outcomes
• You'll own meaningful parts of the platform, not just small tasks or legacy maintenance
• You'll build end-to-end: from raw data ingestion to ML inference and finally into production integrations
• You'll learn fast—new challenges, new tools, new domains every quarter

Workplace

• One of our values pillars is to work as OneTeam and we believe that there is no replacement for in-person collaboration but understand the value of some flexibility. Public Storage teammates are expected to work in the office five days each week with the option to take up to three flexible remote days per month.
  • Our office is based in Plano, TX K. Ave, Plano, TX 75074

Public Storage is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

**Sponsorship for Work Authorization is not available for this posting.  Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring sponsorship now or in the future**

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