Remote Co-op: Data Engineer for AI-Ready De-identification

Tonic; United States; Remote; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

Tonic.ai is seeking a Coop engineer to own client de-identification projects, taking raw data through the pipeline to deliver ready datasets. You will work with founders, data science, and platform engineers to ensure accuracy and reliability of the de-identification process.

You will build ingestions and transformations for diverse data sources, write code within our guardrails, and produce documentation and runbooks that scale across engagements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or current enrollment.
• Experience shipping production data engineering projects for customers.
• Strong Python and SQL skills; comfortable reading and debugging others' code.
• Experience building repeatable pipelines to process large volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Familiarity with AI-native workflows and knowing where AI tools are reliable vs needing oversight.
• Self-directed, able to make decisions without waiting for guidance.
• Clear communication with diverse audiences, from engineers to executives.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of client de-identification projects from raw data to client-accepted datasets.
• Run each corpus through the de-identification pipeline and verify output accuracy.
• Diagnose problems and implement fixes, or explain issues to the responsible engineer.
• Rerun pipelines, confirm fixes, and collaborate with annotation team for quality validation.
• Build and adjust ingestion/transformation steps turning raw exports into ready datasets.
• Write code within the platform guardrails, including client-specific one-offs.
• Run reconciliation checks to ensure ingest-to-delivery data consistency.
• Contribute to client reports detailing handling of sensitive data and limitations.
• Present results to clients alongside founders; document fixes for reuse.
• Turn one-off fixes into runbooks and product improvements.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Backend engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Job description

Tonic.ai is seeking a Coop engineer to own client de-identification projects, taking raw data through the pipeline to deliver ready datasets. You will work with founders, data science, and platform engineers to ensure accuracy and reliability of the de-identification process.

You will build ingestions and transformations for diverse data sources, write code within our guardrails, and produce documentation and runbooks that scale across engagements.