Data Engineer

The role

A Data Engineer will build and run pipelines to turn mass spectrometry and molecular data into datasets for AI training and product use. You will own well-scoped pipelines end to end, including design, testing, and documentation.

What you will do

• Build and operate well-scoped pipelines end to end
• Turn raw data into datasets with consistent schemas and metadata
• Design, build and extend quality checks to stop pipeline failures
• Ingest and acquire new public and partner datasets
• Fetch, convert, validate, and reconcile datasets

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience building data pipelines in production
• Proficient in Python and SQL
• Working knowledge of cloud data infrastructure
• Demonstrated experience owning a pipeline or dataset end to end
• Comfort with messy data and messy formats
• Daily use of AI coding tools
• Clear written communication

Nice to have

• Experience in life sciences, biotechnology, or biochemistry

Benefits

• health & dental
• vision
• long- and short-term disability
• life insurance
• 401k with company match
• flexible work & unlimited time away policy
• commuter benefits and parking
• regular team meals and outings
• company support for continued education/coursework and conference participation

About the company

Matterworks is building foundation models to make biological dark matter legible. They are building Large Spectral Models to turn biochemical biology into something predictable and generative.