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Analytics Engineer - X

Palo Alto, California$180k–$440kfull-timemidAdded yesterday

About this role

SpaceXAI seeks an Analytics Engineer to design and optimize large-scale data pipelines and infrastructure that power quantitative analysis and business decision-making across the organization. You'll combine software engineering rigor with statistical expertise to build production-grade systems supporting experimentation, forecasting, and real-time insights.

What you'll do

  • Design and optimize end-to-end data pipelines for high-volume datasets using distributed computing frameworks like Spark, Kafka, and Flink
  • Develop quantitative models and statistical frameworks for experimentation, forecasting, and performance measurement
  • Build and maintain data infrastructure ensuring quality, consistency, and accessibility for analytical workflows
  • Conduct A/B tests, causal analysis, and performance evaluations to drive measurable metric improvements
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, and automation for data systems to support real-time decision support
  • Mentor team members on scalable data engineering and quantitative problem-solving best practices

What they're looking for

  • Python and SQL
  • Distributed computing frameworks (Spark, Flink, Hadoop)
  • Statistical methods and hypothesis testing
  • Predictive modeling and experimental design
  • Cloud data services and orchestration
  • Real-time streaming systems
  • Data pipeline architecture
  • Problem-solving and system optimization

Benefits

  • Equity compensation
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Various discounts and perks
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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a complex data pipeline you built at scale—what were the key challenges and how did you optimize for performance?
  • Describe your approach to designing an experiment and how you'd handle confounding variables in a causal analysis.