Staff Data Engineer, Inari
Office located in Cambridge, MA
Genetic crop modification
Open for applications
Genetic crop modification
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Office located in Cambridge, MA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build a more sustainable global food system for the benefit of farmers, society and the planet.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Mathematics or related STEM fields
- 7+ years of software/data engineering experience, building data pipelines, and delivering curated data products(warehouses/marts); preferably supporting scientists doing high throughput data analysis
- A strong commitment to our core values—innovation, boldness, integrity, openness, and collaboration—in your everyday work, showcasing a respect for diverse perspectives and a drive to embrace challenges and deliver high-impact results
- Proactive communication and experience working with cross-functional teams
- Expertise in Python, SQL
- Experienced in one or more of Apache Airflow, Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, NoSQL, batch processing, event streaming/processing technologies
- You are excited about building data models and working with scientific, commercial, and operational data
- Familiarity with CI/CD and containerization technology
- Familiarity with professional software engineering practices, including automated testing, agile methodologies, DevOps, pair programming, refactoring
- Active interest in learning new technology or domains. We are an organization that goes across many disciplines
Desirable
- Experience working with AgTech or Biotech and supporting genomic data pipelines or other scientific/operational data pipelines
- You have worked in bioinformatics adjacent teams
- You are familiar with the Databricks lake house architecture
- Experience with Terraform (other AWS-related IaC), Sigma Computing, PowerBI, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, AWS Neptune, Knowledge Graphs
- Experience working with computational scientists and understanding their diverse needs
What the job involves
- Inari’s Data Engineering team is looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our team
- We are looking for an experienced engineer to support building the data lake of our product pipeline for our SEEDesign platform to funnel information to different parts of the organization
- This team will be focused on data sources, systems, and services to bring curated knowledge to our internal customers
- You will engage with a critical cross section of our product, science, commercial, and engineering teams
- Build integrated data products and pipelines from a variety of systems and flat files that support different functions at Inari
- Work with engineers to understand how we can move data to different applications and provide insight into key decision points throughout our product development pipeline
- Work at the interface of data science, machine learning, application development, and accelerated computing to allow for some of the larger analysis of data and ingestion of public and internal data to drive editing of different row crops
- Thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment, learning new technologies, exploring large datasets, and contributing to a mission-driven focus on sustainable agriculture
Our take
The effects of climate change and a still-swelling global population is ramping up the pressure on the world’s agriculture industry. To stave off a global hunger crisis, cash is being poured into gene editing for the world’s major crops, and Inari is a Unicorn biotech company conducting important work in this field.
Inari applies predictive design, AI, ML and multiplex gene editing to improve yield and resource demand for the world’s largest crops - corn, soybeans, and wheat - which collectively cover over 500 million acres across the American continent. The results so far are impressive: it claims to boost crop yield by up to 20%, and cut water and nitrogen usage for corn by 40%.
Genetic engineering for seeds isn’t a new concept. For example, Monstanto and Sygenta are among the giants who’ve been pioneering in this field since the 1990s. But progress is slow with gene editing, so Inari has been smart to focus on key, lucrative and high-urgency crops. It continues to raise huge amounts of funding to support its development and growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2025
$144m
LATE VC
Jan 2024
$103m
LATE VC
Total funding: $711m
Company HQ
Wellington-Harrington, Cambridge, MA
Leadership
Ponsi Trivisvavet
(CEO)Previously a McKinsey Associate Principal, who then held various senior roles at Syngenta for nearly a decade. Subsequently served as COO at Indigo.
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