Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time
· London Hybrid - 4 Day Work Week

£70,000 - 90,000 per year

Climate Policy Radar is an independent non‑profit building open, credible databases and AI‑powered tools for climate, nature, and development action.

Our data and tools help governments, researchers, international organisations, civil society, and the private sector to understand and advance effective climate policies and deploy climate finance. Harnessing data science and AI – including pioneering applications of natural language processing – we make previously unstructured, siloed data easier to find, understand, and act on.

We are a team of policy experts, engineers, data scientists, product thinkers, communicators, and operators. We care deeply about how we work – our values, culture, and ways of collaborating – as well as what we build. As part of that, we have embraced a flexible, hybrid approach to work, including a four‑day workweek.

Climate Policy Radar's engineering org is split into functional teams: programmes (domain experts), platform (high‑quality data sharing), application (user‑facing tools), and data science (models and evaluation). Despite those splits, most of our work is cross‑functional.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our Platform team. In this role, you will help build and improve the data and machine‑learning infrastructure supporting our R&D and production environment.

• Laying the groundwork to make our core product multilingual in 2027 (French, Spanish & Portuguese), to open up information across linguistic boundaries
• Using our Data Lake to improve our data lifecycle and data sharing capabilities, and unlocking visualisations with our domain experts
• Improving the search engine in our core product to help people find what they are looking for
• Incorporating GenAI and RAG into our core product to enable a move from search engine to evidence synthesis (e.g., summaries, Q&A, comparisons)
• Sharing our data and services externally so that others can build upon our work
• Maturing pipelines for training and deploying machine‑learning classifiers for identifying topics in climate‑related documents

• Data & infrastructure:
  Snowflake, Docker, AWS (ECS, S3, etc.), Pulumi, Prefect, Git Hub Actions
• Search:
  Vespa
• APIs & backend:
  Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL
• Data Science:
  PyTorch, Huggingface, Pydantic AI, Pandas, Spacy, Weights & Biases

You have enthusiasm for:

• Building data pipelines
• Scaling data infrastructure
• Product ionising machine learning
• Optimising search technologies
• Data governance & quality

It would be a bonus if you had familiarity with:

• Knowledge Graphs
• Text Classification
• Generative AI
• Dev Ops or Observability
• Data Lakes / Data Warehouses

We are looking for candidates with significant experience in highly collaborative cross‑functional teams, excitement about working in a start‑up / scaleup environment, and everything else that brings.

We are a mission‑driven organisation, and work best with people who have strong alignment with our values. We care about them deeply.

We actively encourage applicants from diverse and historically under‑represented backgrounds. If you align with our values and are excited about working in Climate Change and AI, we’d love to hear from you.

• Salary:
  Up to £70k – £90k pa, dependent on experience
• A deep commitment to employee wellbeing, including policies such as a 4‑day workweek (same pay, Fridays off), unlimited annual leave, and a wellbeing allowance
• A vibrant, collaborative, empathetic work culture that thrives on innovation and impact
• Hybrid work environment (2 days a week) in London, currently at Sustainable Ventures in County Hall with a plan to move to Tech Space in Goswell Road later this year. We welcome conversations about flexibility and remote work to accommodate individual needs

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