About the job
Location: San Jose, CA or New York City
Remote: Considered; travel required
About Tessera Labs: Tessera Labs is at the forefront of transforming how enterprises implement and leverage Artificial Intelligence. Supported by Foundation Capital and driven by a top-tier founding team, we develop multi-agent AI systems that streamline complex business workflows across major platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, Workday, Snowflake, MuleSoft, and beyond.
Our Mission: Our goal is to deliver genuine AI automation to enterprises with speed, precision, and measurable outcomes. We prioritize agility, take ownership, and innovate at the cutting edge of applied AI.
Why This Role is Essential: This position empowers Forward Deployment Engineers (FDEs) to facilitate swift and secure AI-driven ERP modernization. You will play a vital role in enhancing migration speed, ensuring operational continuity, and enabling data-informed decision-making. Your work will lay the groundwork for enterprise-scale AI and analytical solutions in complex environments, positioning you at the forefront of enterprise AI and ERP transformation.
Role Overview: As a Data Engineer, you will collaborate closely with Forward Deployment Engineers (FDEs) to drive rapid ERP modernization and AI transformation for our enterprise clients. Your primary focus will be on data harmonization, cross-system integration, and developing data pipelines, ensuring that AI solutions and enterprise workflows are supported by high-quality, reliable, and well-structured data.
This role requires expertise in ETL processes, relational schema modeling, data mapping, data cleaning, and pipeline logic for structured/tabular data. A lightweight MLOps component may be involved, focusing on structured datasets and potentially requiring distributed processing with PySpark or ML data engineering techniques. Note that there are no downstream responsibilities concerning model training, serving, or deployment.
Candidates should bring a deeper understanding of ERP-centric data compared to typical ML data engineering roles, along with robust generalist engineering skills to construct scalable, production-grade pipelines. Ideal candidates will have expertise in SAP data coupled with modern data engineering or machine learning enablement experience; strengths in one area with the willingness to learn the other are acceptable.
Key Responsibilities:
- Data Harmonization: Integrate, reconcile, and standardize structured data across ERP, CRM, finance, and analytical systems.

