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.
ICON is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an innovative, inclusive, diverse and discrimination-free work environment. Employment with ICON is based on merit, competence, and qualifications. It is our policy to administer all personnel actions, including recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal and state laws. Consistent with the obligations of these laws, ICON will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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