Senior Backend Data Engineer, Vannevar

• 4+ years as a Backend, ML Infra, or MLOps Engineer or similar role
• Experience with Python
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience working with ML services
• Experience with Spark or any large-scale data processing engine
• Familiarity with relational databases and data warehousing solutions
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Desirable

• We are looking for a Senior Backend Data Engineer to help build new machine learning services and products within our multi-terabyte data lake
• You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that includes deep learning experts, software engineers, and officers from all branches of the military
• Our engineering culture is about empathizing with users and building software products that deliver maximum mission impact
• As a founding member of the team your decisions today will have a large impact on the company today and into the future
• You are innovative: willing to take risks, think critically about novel solutions, and advocate for your ideas while seeking feedback and collaboration
• You will be making trade-offs as you work to ensure that our systems are prepared to scale — being able to effectively communicate these trade-offs with your teammates is a must
• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate user experience, product and software solutions
• Build ETL pipelines to load data in/out of ML systems
• Write effective APIs to serve ML and LLM solutions
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write technical documentation