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SWE Bench – Data Engineer/Data Scientist

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About the Role

We are looking for experienced Software Engineers (SWE Bench – Data Engineer / Data Science) to contribute to benchmark-driven evaluation projects focused on real-world data engineering and data science workflows. This role involves hands-on work with production-like datasets, data pipelines, and data science tasks to help evaluate and improve the performance of advanced AI systems. The ideal candidate has strong foundations in data engineering and data science, with the ability to work across data preparation, analysis, and model-related workflows in real-world codebases. What does day-to-day life look like?

What You'll Do

Work with structured and unstructured datasets to support SWE Bench-style evaluation tasks.
Design, build, and validate data pipelines used in benchmarking and evaluation workflows.
Perform data processing, analysis, feature preparation, and validation for data science use cases.
Write, run, and modify Python code to process data and support experiments locally.
Evaluate data quality, transformations, and outputs for correctness and reproducibility.
Create clean, well-documented, and reusable data workflows suitable for benchmarking.
Participate in code reviews to ensure high standards of code quality and maintainability.
Collaborate with researchers and engineers to design challenging, real-world data engineering and data science tasks for AI systems.

You're a Good Fit If You

Required skills: Data Engineering, Data Science
Minimum 3+ years of overall experience as a Data Engineer, Data Scientist, or Software Engineer (data-focused).
Strong proficiency in Python for data engineering and data science workflows.
Demonstrable experience with data processing, analysis, and model-related workflows.
Solid understanding of machine learning and data science fundamentals.
Experience working with structured and unstructured data.
Ability to understand, navigate, and modify complex, real-world codebases.
Experience writing readable, reusable, maintainable, and well-documented code.
Strong problem-solving skills, including experience with algorithmic or data-intensive problems.

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Work with structured and unstructured datasets to support SWE Bench-style evaluation tasks. Design, build, and validate data pipelines used in benchmarking and evaluation workflows. Perform data processing, analysis, feature preparation, and validation for data science use cases.

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