Research Engineer, Economic Research Data Platform

San Francisco, CA · full time

$320,000 – $405,000

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role builds and maintains data infrastructure for Anthropic's research into how AI affects economic activity, creating pipelines that turn raw usage data into datasets for studying AI adoption's impacts on jobs and regions. It suits engineers who've shipped data systems in production and enjoy working across technical and non-technical teams to tackle ambiguous problems at scale.

Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

Significant production experience building data-intensive applications, pipelines, or internal tooling
Proficiency in Python with clean, well-documented code
Experience with AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure
Ability to make technical decisions with incomplete information
Full-stack problem-solving mindset
Strong communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience

Nice to have

Experience with modern data transformation, orchestration, and query frameworks
Building systems on top of LLMs
Privacy-preserving data systems or data governance and lineage tooling
Building and operating web services and infrastructure
Full-stack development or complex data visualization
Background in econometrics, statistics, or quantitative social science
Prior experience in research labs, trading firms, or analytics companies
Intuition for analytics workflows and empathy for researcher needs