Staff Data Engineer position, MIT Political Science and College of Computing
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Aaron Rudkin
Nov 27, 2023, 7:23:34 PM11/27/23
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Dear all,
I write to call your attention to a staff (non-academic) Data Engineer position we've opened at MIT, working for the department of Political Science and the Schwarzman College of Computing with Professor In Song Kim. This is a great early-career position (new graduates to 3 years experience especially encouraged to apply) working on an exciting and widely used project: Lobbyview. Lobbyview is a database of every interaction between lobbyists and members of congress, as well as donations and financial activity. We can ask questions like "Who are the corporations who lobby to influence climate regulation?" and "If a congressperson is appointed to a committee whose area of expertise includes criminal justice regulation, how much of a financial windfall are they likely to receive from interested donors?"
We're looking for a Data Engineer to help use architect our infrastructure to cope with scale and continue integrating new data: we especially want to make our ETL (extract, transform, load) process more robust. Our stack right now includes PostgreSQL, Python/R, and we use AWS for deployment of our public-facing outputs. We do world-class research here and it's time to build world-class technological pipelines to underpin the project.
If this sounds like a position you're interested in, a detailed job posting is available on MIT's job posting site (please, include a cover letter!); note that unfortunately we cannot provide visa sponsorship for this position but are happy to consider J1/F1 students looking to use OPT or similar:
I write to call your attention to a staff (non-academic) Data Engineer position we've opened at MIT, working for the department of Political Science and the Schwarzman College of Computing with Professor In Song Kim. This is a great early-career position (new graduates to 3 years experience especially encouraged to apply) working on an exciting and widely used project: Lobbyview. Lobbyview is a database of every interaction between lobbyists and members of congress, as well as donations and financial activity. We can ask questions like "Who are the corporations who lobby to influence climate regulation?" and "If a congressperson is appointed to a committee whose area of expertise includes criminal justice regulation, how much of a financial windfall are they likely to receive from interested donors?"
We're looking for a Data Engineer to help use architect our infrastructure to cope with scale and continue integrating new data: we especially want to make our ETL (extract, transform, load) process more robust. Our stack right now includes PostgreSQL, Python/R, and we use AWS for deployment of our public-facing outputs. We do world-class research here and it's time to build world-class technological pipelines to underpin the project.
If this sounds like a position you're interested in, a detailed job posting is available on MIT's job posting site (please, include a cover letter!); note that unfortunately we cannot provide visa sponsorship for this position but are happy to consider J1/F1 students looking to use OPT or similar:
Aaron Rudkin
MIT Department of Political Science
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