The role
Join Nous to build and own the data pipelines behind our analytics and model training. This role centers on long-horizon agentic data at scale, turning millions of multi-step, tool-conditioned interactions into reliable datasets the whole company can trust. Open to any time zone with meaningful overlap with US hours.
Responsibilities
Build, operate, and continuously improve the data pipelines that feed analytics and model training.
Deliver reliable internal analytics so teams across Nous can make decisions on their own data.
Wrangle long-horizon agentic data into structured, well-documented datasets ready for analysis and training.
Choose ETL/ELT approaches based on destination capabilities, reproducibility, latency, and cost, and explain the tradeoffs behind each choice.
Own pipeline operations in production, including failures, re-runs, and backfills, and debug issues across jobs, storage, permissions, and downstream consumers.
Design and evolve schemas, storage formats, and data models as needs change.
Build memory-efficient processing that scales, using streaming and partitioning, and recognize when a workload has outgrown a single machine.
Communicate clearly about data location, lineage, quality, limitations, and fitness for use to engineers and non-engineers alike.
Qualifications
4+ years of data engineering experience building and operating production data pipelines.
Strong fundamentals in SQL, data modeling, and practical schema design and evolution.
Deep understanding of storage formats and database types, and when each one fits.
A working model of the data stack: ingestion, storage, transformation, orchestration, cataloging, and serving, and where responsibilities belong in each layer.
Strong Python, plus solid shell skills for batch and storage operations.
Hands-on cloud experience with object storage, batch compute, and identity and access management.
Production experience with at least one workflow orchestration system such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or an in-house equivalent.
An instinct for data quality: you ask "is the data good?" and not just "did the pipeline run?"
Extensive use of AI-assisted development tools, with disciplined review of what those tools produce.
Preferred
Experience working with agentic or LLM-generated data, including structured, multi-step, tool-conditioned interactions.
Experience building data pipelines for model training.
Experience processing datasets at the scale of millions of interactions or more.
Background at data infrastructure, observability, or AI data companies.
How to apply
Email recruiting@nousresearch.com with the following information:
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4+ years data engineering experience; strong SQL, data modeling, Python, shell skills; cloud experience with object storage and batch compute; production experience with workflow orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect); AI-assisted development tools.
Key Responsibilities
- building data pipelines
- operating production pipelines
- designing data schemas
Skills & Tools
SQL, Python, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect
Job Details
- Category: Data and Analytics
- Seniority: Mid Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — United States
- Languages: English
About Nous Research
A research company building data pipelines for analytics and model training. — Industry: Information Technology