Senior Software Engineer, Data

Austin, Texas, United States

ICON is looking for a Software Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the data infrastructure that powers our data-driven products and services.

Data Engineering Responsibilities

  • Design and build robust data pipelines to ingest, transform, and load data from a variety of internal and external sources.
  • Develop and maintain large, high quality datasets that power machine learning models and analytical products.
  • Build scalable data storage, processing, and serving infrastructure on cloud platforms.
  • Develop tooling and services for data labeling, data review, and dataset curation at scale.
  • Find and evaluate new external data sources - manage relationships with data partners and vendors.
  • Contribute to CI/CD practices and engineering standards across the data platform.

Data Science Responsibilities

  • Partner with ML engineers and researchers to design feature pipelines and experiment infrastructure.
  • Apply statistical and analytical techniques to assess dataset quality, identify gaps, and surface insights.
  • Develop efficient algorithms and data models to curate data and maintain high quality and consistency.
  • Design and evaluate metrics to measure dataset health and model readiness.
  • Translate ambiguous research questions into well defined data problems with measurable outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software development experience.
  • 5+ years of hands on experience managing and engineering data at scale.
  • Proficiency in Python, TypeScript and SQL.
  • Experience with cloud data services and storage technologies (e.g., S3, Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake).
  • Familiarity with statistical analysis and core data science concepts (feature engineering, data distributions, model evaluation etc).
  • Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong problem solving skills with the ability to work independently and drive projects end-to-end.

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Experience building large datasets for machine learning training and evaluation.
  • Proficiency with data science libraries (pandas, NumPy etc.).
  • AWS experience, including CDK or similar managed services.
  • Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect etc).
  • Experience with modern CI/CD workflows
  • Experience partnering with external organizations or managing 3rd party data vendors.
 
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