Director of Data Engineering

Manifold is an AI engineering services company accelerating AI and data roadmaps to create business value and positively impact lives. We are trusted by CTOs, CIOs, and GMs at Global 500 and high-growth companies across consumer electronics, industrials, wireless, online commerce, and digital health industries. Our team of experienced engineers has a track record of innovation at organizations like Google, Qualcomm, MIT, and successful venture-backed startups. Our Advisory Board includes leading researchers in deep learning at Stanford and Harvard.
 
We have a proven ability to design, build, deploy, and manage complex data applications. From helping a digital health company deliver better patient care by building a HIPAA-compliant AI product to helping a telecom company research wireless performance for a high-stakes R&D project to helping an industrial laser company diagnose problems more efficiently, our clients rely on us to help them realize the full value of AI.
 
We are a team of doers working in a highly-collaborative environment keenly aware of the responsibility of our impact in creating the future. We believe diverse teams are critical for innovation. You’ll have the opportunity to develop your craft and make a positive impact in the world.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Be a technical leader for large customer projects designing data pipelines across a range of platforms and technologies
 
  • Build and manage a growing team of data engineers
  • Be an expert in the data engineering field acting as a technical resource both internally and with customers.
  • Explore and prototype the latest data processing technologies and libraries to determine how they can be used for our customers and prospects.
  • Architect internal data pipelines and reference systems to reduce the time to deploy new solutions for our customers.

WHO YOU ARE

You are someone who probably:
 
  • Has an extensive software engineering background immersed in software systems 
  • Has the capacity to understand a given problem and then create innovative and practical solutions applying technologies that best fit the business needs of customers
  • Can manage the details of end-to-end implementation, keeping track of dependencies within a large design, and communicating the vision and ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Understands and has experience with a variety of technologies across with the proven ability to quickly and effectively assimilate and apply new technologies
  • Has deep understanding and experience with data architectures, information systems deployment and storage techniques and information management and analysis tools.
  • Possesses excellent interpersonal and team building skills 
  • Data driven decision making is core to your lifestyle
  • Enjoys leading, recruiting, mentoring and motivating engineers
  • Has a positive, people-oriented, and energetic attitude 

In your past work, you probably have:
 
  • Managed a small team building highly-available, distributed systems to handle large volumes of data 
  • Designed and built production ETL, data pipelines, and entity resolution systems 
  • Worked with data warehousing tools such as Hive, Spark, Amazon Redshift and used queuing technologies such as Kafka, Rabbit MQ, or Amazon SQS.
  • Deployed both SQL and NoSQL database technologies such as PostgresSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB 
  • Deep understanding in the operational aspects of a distributed compute environment
  • Worked with Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers as customers of your software
  • Worked in an agile software development environment and know how to ship iterative features to production.

WHAT WE OFFER

AUTONOMY
Doing our most creative work without the frictions of bureaucratic decision-making and inefficient meetings.
 
GROWTH
Growing professionally and personally by working with other exceptional people in tackling challenging problems.
 
PURPOSE
Making the kind of impact on other organizations and people that make every day fulfilling.
 
CULTURE
Optimistic, curious, humble, generous, transparent, and in control of our own destiny.
 
TOP QUARTILE COMPENSATION
We benchmark our compensation framework to market every year using the same data that large technology companies use.

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