Basis Research

Basis Research

Data Engineer, Platform

New York Office · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 241 days ago
PythonSQLSparkAirflowData EngineeringResearch

About the role

  • You will work on both platform-specific data needs and cross-project data coordination, preventing duplicate work and facilitating shared datasets.
  • We are looking for people who are technically excellent and treat data quality as a first-class concern.
  • We seek individuals who aspire to do rigorous, high-quality, robust data engineering, but are not afraid to iterate, learn from real usage, and explore different approaches to achieve excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build data pipelines for training and evaluation across Basis research projects and platform offerings, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
  • Implement data quality frameworks including validation rules, quality gates, anomaly detection, and monitoring that catch data issues before they impact research or production systems.
  • Develop and maintain feature stores or equivalent systems that enable consistent feature access across training and serving environments, preventing train-serve skew.
  • Optimize data infrastructure for scale as compute grows, including cost optimization, performance tuning, caching strategies, and efficient data access patterns.
  • Collaborate with research and engineering teams to understand data needs, translate requirements into technical solutions, and provide consultation on data architecture and best practices.

Requirements

  • The second is to advance society's ability to solve intractable problems.
  • This means expanding the scale, complexity, and breadth of problems that we can solve today, and even more importantly, accelerating our ability to solve problems in the future.
  • Experience with feature stores (Tecton, Feast) or building feature platforms.
  • Experience with data lineage tools (Apache Atlas, DataHub, Monte Carlo) and metadata management.
  • Knowledge of vector databases and embedding pipelines for modern AI applications.
  • Possess strong proficiency in data technologies including SQL (expert level), Python for data processing, distributed computing frameworks (Spark, Dask), and workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect).

Skills

  • Creating data quality frameworks and implementing governance systems

Compensation

  • Non-Discrimination Notice
  • By submitting your application, you grant Basis permission to use your materials for both hiring evaluation and recruitment-related research and development purposes.
  • Your information may be processed in different countries, including the US.
  • You retain copyright while providing Basis a license to use these materials for the stated purposes.
  • Competitive salary.

Company info

  • We are in the office four days a week.
  • Be prepared to attend multi-day Basis-wide in-person events.
  • Basis is a collaborative effort, both internally and with our external partners; we are looking for people who enjoy building data foundations for problems larger than ones they can tackle alone.
  • Implement data governance policies ensuring compliance with privacy regulations, security requirements, and responsible AI practices as Basis serves external customers.
  • In-person Policy: We are in the office four days a week. Be prepared to attend multi-day Basis-wide in-person events.

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