Senior Software Engineer, Data - Remote

Overview

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is hiring a Data Engineer to help integrate a large U.S. patent corpus into the Semantic Scholar platform, focusing on high-impact data engineering tasks.

In Short

• Work remotely from any state in the US.
• Salary range between $146,880 - $220,320 with generous bonuses.
• Build scalable data pipelines and integrate ML models.
• Develop and deploy lightweight ML models for data tasks.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure maintainability and robust deployment.
• Produce reliable, well-documented code.
• Work in a high-performing engineering environment.
• Fixed-term position for 2 years with possible renewal.
• Contribute to dashboards for evaluating data quality.
• Support scientific discovery through high-quality datasets.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of technical experience.
• Strong Python engineering skills.
• Experience with SQL and schema design (PostgreSQL preferred).
• Familiarity with ML workflows for large-scale datasets.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow).
• Comfortable with structured datasets and writing ETL code.
• Strong communication skills and ownership for results.
• Preferred experience with citation networks or scholarly data systems.
• Experience applying topic modeling techniques at scale.
• Comfort building internal APIs and dashboards.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision coverage for team members and families.
• 401k plan enrollment.
• $125/month for commuting or internet expenses.
• $200/month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Up to 20 vacation days and 12 paid holidays per year.
• Annual bonuses.