Implementation Engineer

Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland

• Travel is encouraged approximately once a quarter, and occasionally required.

Role Type: Full-time

Compensation: $97,000

Visa sponsorship: Not available

Hires remotely in: United States

Experience: 2+ years (full-time experience)

PLEASE APPLY DIRECTLY TO THIS ROLE VIA: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/recidiviz/jobs/4406931006

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Note: Implementation Engineers and Data Analysts at Recidiviz both work directly with our data and leverage similar SQL & Python skill sets. Please read both job descriptions and apply to the one of your preference.* *

At a high level:

• Implementation Engineers are primarily responsible for understanding the raw data from our state partners and transforming it into our comprehensive, unified data layer.
• Data Analysts are primarily responsible for using that transformed data to produce information to power our tools and insights to use in analyses.

Our team will review your application and consider you for the role that matches your background & skill sets best.

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Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring an Implementation Engineer to join our team! We’re a small, fast-moving group that works with complex criminal justice data from our state partners and builds tools that target the drivers of incarceration. That’s where you come in. We’re looking for someone who is excited to work directly with state partners to understand their complex data, who is ready to problem solve as new hurdles emerge, and who is passionate about doing work that matters.

About us

Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. We build technology to reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making.

Using software tools and thoughtful product design, we’ve been able to safely and permanently reduce incarceration and improve outcomes. We work side-by-side with leaders of the criminal justice system, people in prison and on supervision, and ecosystem partners to build a better path forward. In addition to the revenue we earn from state partners, some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations support our work.

People who succeed at Recidiviz lead with kindness and humility, assume good intent, learn from failure, and fix problems when they see them. They are excited to work arm in arm with government leadership and staff to improve outcomes. They are great listeners. They build deep relationships with and empathy for the people we work with and the people who our mission serves, even when those two groups feel at odds.

About the role

At the core of our work is a process we call ingest: consuming data from various siloed data sources, normalizing and cleaning it, linking it together, and ultimately preparing it for Recidiviz analytics and product development. For each state we work with, we have to build this data translation layer, test it, and validate the results. This, in turn, powers all of our analyses and products that then are used to improve the outcomes of the state’s justice systems. Ingest is critical and the chief responsibility of Implementation Engineers at Recidiviz.

We are looking for people who can reason about complex datasets and data models, develop sophisticated data transformations, think clearly about systems, and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, including external government partners. Just as important, the right person for this role has a collaborative and kind nature, is comfortable taking agency, and can thrive in a dynamic workplace where no two days are the same.

Travel is encouraged approximately once a quarter, and occasionally required.

Core responsibilities

• Building, testing, and validating data integrations for each state partner
• Collaborating effectively and empathetically with people in state government to understand their data
• Updating existing data integrations when called for by new analytics or product development, or changes in underlying data systems
• Collaborating with our State Engagement and Data Analysis teams to design and execute on targeted roadmaps that drive impact in the states where we work
• Collaborating closely with our Data Analytics and Data Science team to ensure they have the data they need to power new products and analyses

Wild success

A year from now:

• You’ve driven impact. Your work has led to several launches of our products across the country and has helped quantify the impact those tools are having on the outcomes of the justice system.
• You’ve leveled up our Implementation Engineering team. Your contributions to our tooling and processes, as well as your support for your teammates, has helped set our team up to achieve more impact sooner.

Minimum qualifications

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, to help nurture a knowledgeable, data-oriented culture
• Enthusiasm for working with internal and external partners from diverse backgrounds and worldviews, such as government staff, researchers, journalists, technical staff, and practitioners in criminal justice reform
• Ability to explore source data, reason about data models, investigate complex edge cases, and solve challenging data problems
• 2 or more years of practical experience exploring, transforming, and modeling complex data
• Professional work experience using SQL to work with large datasets, including high proficiency writing efficient queries for more complex data extraction and transformation tasks

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working in a cross-functional organization that designs, builds, and launches products for users
• Experience working with imperative programming languages to accomplish basic tasks
• Familiarity with our data stack, which includes Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, DataFlow, Looker, Jupyter notebooks, and Python

Compensation

Compensation is standardized based on roles and responsibilities. This ensures equitable compensation and responsible stewardship of our resources. As such, we do not negotiate compensation offers.

The compensation for this role is: $97,000

What we offer

• Effective, extremely thoughtful colleagues, working together on a mission that matters
• 90% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible time off, including 20 days of PTO, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
• Complimentary One Medical membership (depending on location)
• Partnership with Carrot to provide employees with inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits, as well as a small but growing number of hormonal health and gender-affirming care benefits
• Monthly ClassPass credit for personal wellness
• Free mental health support via Talkspace
• Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose
• An annual company offsite each spring and other ad-hoc gatherings
• All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit

More about Recidiviz

Recidiviz was an all-volunteer effort until early 2019, when Clementine, Andrew, and Joshua founded the organization. Since then, we’ve built an A-team of software engineers, designers, product managers and domain experts, from companies like Google, Apple, Dropbox, Opower, and Sidewalk Labs. Recidiviz was part of Y-Combinator’s 2019 class and has received support from some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations, including Ford Foundation, Mackenzie Scott, Schmidt Futures, Arnold Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation.

Today, Recidiviz works with (and earns revenue from) over 15 state partners – big and small, red and blue – and covers more than 40% of the US incarcerated population. We have helped to get tens of thousands of people out of the criminal justice system, safely and equitably, and saved states nearly $1 billion. In the next five years, Recidiviz plans to partner with 40 states and help 250,000 people who are stuck in the system to get out and stay out. In addition to partnering with state Departments of Corrections, Recidiviz collaborates with and learns from partners – from organizations like the Correctional Leaders Association (CLA) to community based organizations and justice-impacted individuals, whose perspectives guide our work.

To learn more about how we do what we do, check out our 2023 Year in Review, read some press coverage, or watch our TED Talk. And if you’re really keen to see our work, you can dive into our Github :).

An important note

Lasting change is always built on diversity. Recidiviz recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, gender identity and all protected status as required by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in your application. Even if you don't think you meet all the criteria above, drop your resume, and we'll take a look – you might be great for another role or another time!