OpenAI
People
DataEngineer,PeopleInnovationLabs
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“Data Engineer, People Innovation Labs at OpenAI. Skills: Data Engineering, Data Pipelines, Data Warehousing, ETL, Distributed Systems. Design, build and manage people data pipelines, ensuring all data is seamlessly integrated into our Databricks warehouse. Develop canonical datasets to track key people metrics and People Innovation Labs product metrics”
What You'll Achieve.
Enable the People Analytics function to do their best work; Build data-intensive systems that will power People Innovation Labs’ internal products
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years of experience as a data engineer, 8+ years of any software engineering experience (including data engineering), Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used within Data Engineering, such as Python, Scala, or Java, Experience with data warehousing technologies such as Databricks and Snowflake, Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Fivetran, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar, Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3)
What You'll Do.
build and manage people data pipelines
ensuring all data is seamlessly integrated into our Databricks warehouse
Develop canonical datasets to track key people metrics and People Innovation Labs product metrics
Implement robust and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion and processing
and compliance of data according to industry and company standards
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work collaboratively with various teams, including, Data Platform, Data Science, People Analytics, and Compensation and Equity to understand their data needs and provide solutions; Work with People Innovation Labs leadership and software engineers and the People Analytics team to build the data systems that enable this work
Full Job Description
About the Team At OpenAI, we’re building the connective tissue between our mission and our people. People Innovation Labs is a fast-moving engineering team embedded in the People organization, focused on rethinking how we find and retain the best talent and empower everyone to do their best work. From recruiting to culture, we’re designing systems that give our People Team a significant edge by infusing OpenAI’s models and first-principles thinking into every aspect of our work. Our projects range from greenfield 0-1 products like OpenHouse (our internal knowledge hub) to AI-powered automations and scalable recruiting tools. We’re defining the future of work at OpenAI, creating a blueprint for how AI can supercharge productivity, culture, and innovation. About the Role We are looking for a hands-on engineering manager to lead technical and product strategy and execution for People Innovation Labs’ OpenHouse pod. OpenHouse is our flagship employee-facing product, serving as a culture and communication hub and an organization-wide front door into all other aspects of People Innovation Labs’ work. The OpenHouse pod is composed of full stack product engineers who are deeply curious about culture, recruiting and people development, and want to know everything from the business strategy and metrics down through the code that gets us there. In this role, you will work with People Innovation Labs leadership to build and grow the team and OpenHouse product, innovating on how we apply LLMs along the way. We’re seeking a Data Engineer to build data-intensive systems that will power People Innovation Labs’ internal products and enable the People Analytics function to do their best work. These data pipelines are crucial for our build-out of people products backed by business systems of record and for ongoing people data analytics. One example of an employee-facing product you’ll help us build is OpenHouse, which serves as a culture and communication hub and an organization-wide
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