Data Scientist / Data Analyst Event

Jacobs Engineering Group - Chicago, IL

Full-time

Chicago, IL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Jacobs is seeking candidates for future roles in Data Science, Data Analytics, and AI & ML Engineering. The company focuses on delivering innovative aviation solutions and requires professionals who can build and maintain data pipelines, optimize systems, and ensure high performance of software components. The role emphasizes the importance of data integration and analytics to support critical military aircraft solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines for processing data and empowering analytics at scale.
• Optimize pipelines, dashboards, frameworks, and systems to facilitate development of data artifacts.
• Transform raw data into cleaned, organized and actionable formats.
• Solve data integration problems.
• Ensure high scalability and performance of software components and systems, with optimal use of machine resources.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Mathematics or an Engineering discipline.
• Experience in developing software and/or data products, with programming experience with Python, and one other language (Scala, Java, Rust, etc.).
• Strong skills in algorithms, data structures, technical design and software architecture.
• Experience in SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL or Big Query preferred), and good understanding of relational concepts.
• Experience with cloud and/or big data technologies.
• Strong data analysis skills, statistics, knowing what can/cannot be possible, and ability to visualize data in the best way possible.
• Good communication skills - written, visual (presentations), and verbal.
• Ability to deliver adequate results on deadline, and make compromises to enable scalability and productization of algorithms.
• Quick learner, and a strong team player.

Nice-to-haves

• Geospatial skills are a plus.