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Senior Research Engineer

2 months ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
Research Scientist
Software Development
Apache Airflow AWS Dagster Go Java JavaScript LLM Machine Learning Python Scala Terraform
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Murmuration

Murmuration

Murmuration is a company dedicated to transforming political campaigns and advocacy efforts to improve public education in the United States. They provide sophisticated data and analytics, proprietary technology, strategic guidance, and programmatic su...

Diversified Consumer Services
11-50
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Description

  • Design, build, and operate platforms, tooling, and infrastructure for research and data science enablement systems.
  • Work across the stack on full-stack applications, backend systems, data pipelines, AI integrations, and related infrastructure.
  • Build end-to-end systems that process large-scale datasets reliably and cost-effectively.
  • Create intuitive interfaces that make sophisticated analysis accessible to non-technical users such as journalists, organizers, and decision-makers.
  • Turn manual, time-intensive workflows into fast, scalable, automated processes.
  • Prototype and evaluate emerging technologies, including AI/ML, for research and development challenges.
  • Provide technical guidance to research and data science stakeholders on feasibility, solution options, and tradeoffs.
  • Produce technical documentation such as design docs, architecture decisions, and runbooks.
  • Collaborate across Research, Data Science, Product, and Growth to align on design approaches and delivery.
  • Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, uphold code quality and testing standards, and improve team processes and tooling.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience building data-intensive systems and tooling in production environments.
  • Strong architectural judgment with experience balancing scalability, reliability, cost, and maintainability across multiple services or components.
  • Strong Python programming skills plus proficiency in at least one other language such as JavaScript, Java, Go, or Scala.
  • Experience designing and building APIs, data models, and system integrations for complex, evolving requirements.
  • Experience building and operating production data pipelines using workflow orchestration tools such as Dagster, Airflow, or similar systems.
  • Proven ability to drive complex projects end-to-end with limited direction, including scoping, planning, coordinating, and delivering.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CDK.
  • Strong product sense for internal tools and the ability to identify user pain points and improve productivity.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical decisions and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Passion for civic tech, social impact, or grassroots organizing and interest in building tools that empower organizers and communities.
  • Preferred: Experience building features powered by LLMs or using LLM evaluation frameworks.
  • Preferred: Background working alongside researchers, data scientists, or analysts.
  • Preferred: Contributions to open source or published technical work.
  • Preferred: Experience with survey infrastructure, research tooling, or analytics platforms.
  • Preferred: Experience applying AI/ML techniques to survey, voter, political, or other data.

Benefits

  • Starting salary of $190,576.
  • Full-time, salaried role with a comprehensive benefits package.
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for employees and qualifying family members.
  • Retirement benefits with a 5% employer match.
  • Flexible unlimited PTO plan.
  • Generous paid parental leave.
  • Flexible remote work environment open to candidates anywhere in the United States.
  • Home office setup stipend for all new employees and a company laptop.
  • Monthly reimbursement for remote work expenses.
  • Yearly professional development fund.
  • Mental health and wellness benefits through Calm and Better Help.
  • Yearly in-person staff retreats.

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