Data Engineering Co-op — Build Pipelines for Biomedical

Ampersand; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Annual incentive program

Retirement benefits

Other benefits

Job summary

Ampersand Biomedicines in Boston is offering a Data Engineering Co-op (Spring 2027) for Northeastern students. You will design and implement scalable data pipelines, integrate data across lab systems, and build dashboards to support researchers and leadership.

The role emphasizes collaboration with data scientists and researchers, exposure to ELN and data warehousing, and hands-on work with modern data tools and cloud services.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field at Northeastern University.
• Experience through coursework, personal projects, or internships with data pipeline development, ETL concepts, or data integration.
• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift).
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their data services.
• Familiarity with version control (git) and comfort working from the command line.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a collaborative team.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes to support data integration across laboratory, instrument, and research systems.
• Build automation to register lab instruments and pipeline outputs into the ELN and data warehouse, with validation and error handling.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and research teams to define data requirements and deliver robust data solutions.
• Model and transform data into clean, queryable tables and help evaluate modern data lake/warehouse storage approaches.
• Develop dashboards and visualizations that turn pipeline output into actionable information for scientists and leadership.
• Prototype and evaluate an image-analysis pipeline for high-content imaging data, benchmarking segmentation and classification approaches against manual results.
• Implement data-quality checks and best practices to ensure data integrity, reliability, and reproducibility.
• Monitor data pipelines, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions to resolve data-related problems.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for data processes, workflows, and infrastructure.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

ETL

Git

AWS/GCP/Azure

Communication

Problem solving

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Data Science (Northeastern University)

Tools

Apache Airflow

AWS Glue

Spark

Tableau

Power BI

Plotly

Streamlit

Job description

Ampersand Biomedicines in Boston is offering a Data Engineering Co-op (Spring 2027) for Northeastern students. You will design and implement scalable data pipelines, integrate data across lab systems, and build dashboards to support researchers and leadership.

The role emphasizes collaboration with data scientists and researchers, exposure to ELN and data warehousing, and hands-on work with modern data tools and cloud services.