StaffDataEngineer

About Crunchyroll Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love. Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime! About the role In the role of Staff Data Engineer for Concepts Lab, you will report to the VP of the Concepts Lab. We are considering applicants for the location of Los Angeles, CA (onsite). As the Staff Data Engineer for Concepts Lab, you will be the technical anchor for everything data in the lab: designing and building the pipelines, reports, and tooling that turn raw signals from experiments into insights that shape our roadmap. You will move fluidly between hands-on analytics work, and partnership with PMs, designers, and engineers across the company. Success in your first year looks like a Concepts Lab where every new idea has a clear, trustworthy path from question to data to decision and where the team ships faster because of the foundation you have built. Core Areas of Responsibility Own the reliability of AI systems in the lab, including designing eval frameworks, instrumenting observability for LLM-based pipelines, and building the validation and structured-output layers that make model outputs trustworthy. Architect and build the end-to-end data foundation for Concepts Lab on Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark, Databricks SQL), spanning ingestion from AWS and GCP sources through to curated, analytics-ready datasets. Lead data modeling and transformation work by defining the dimensional models, semantic layers, and metrics that the lab and our partners across Crunchyroll rely on for experimentation and decision-making. Perform hands-on analytics: write the SQL, build th