What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Software Engineer, Science position at Jobright.ai?
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Job Summary:
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is dedicated to solving some of society’s toughest challenges, particularly in the realm of biomedical science. They are seeking a Software Engineer to help implement data solutions for their platforms, enabling scientists to interrogate large datasets without needing extensive computational expertise.
Responsibilities:
• Develop end-to-end, robust data pipelines that seamlessly integrate data ingestion, preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, and deployment.
• Implement scalable data warehousing solutions to handle massive volumes of single-cell transcriptomics data and imaging data.
• Ensure data security and compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Implement optimization strategies such as data partitioning, indexing, and compression to enhance query performance and reduce computational costs.
• Create user-friendly APIs to enable researchers and scientists to easily access and explore the curated data.
• Enhance the searchability and findability of scientific datasets.
• Develop scalable, maintainable, and testable software systems and participate in team conversations and efforts on engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with product managers, computational biologists, UX designers, and other software engineers to deliver constant incremental value for scientists without compromising on software quality.
• Have opportunities to learn about scientific data and technologies, though no prior experience is required!
Qualifications:
Required:
• 2 years of relevant engineering technical experience.
• Understanding of AWS services (S3, RDS, EKS, Batch, etc.)
• Computer Science Engineering degree.
• Strong fundamentals in systems design, data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming principles.
• Proficiency in Python, awareness of scientific computing libraries, such as NumPy and SciPy
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Enthusiasm to ramp up on technologies and learn a new science domain.
• Must be self-driven and comfortable supporting data needs of multiple systems and products.
Company:
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative supports community-driven solutions to accelerate progress in science, education, and justice. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.
