Lead Data Engineer H/F

Rejoignez une startup DeepTech en pleine croissance, spécialisée dans la technologie climatique. En tant qu'ingénieur de données, vous aiderez à développer l'infrastructure de traitement et de livraison des données, ainsi qu'à déployer nos modèles d'IA en production. Vous travaillerez sous la direction du CTO et aurez un impact direct sur la lutte contre le changement climatique.

• Conduire des benchmarks techniques et mettre en œuvre les meilleures solutions.
• Développer des solutions Big Data pour optimiser le traitement de jeux de données multidimensionnels.
• Construire des pipelines ETL, développer des API et industrialiser des modèles d'IA (MLOps).

Licorne Society a été missionné par une startup DeepTech en pleine croissance pour les aider à trouver leur Data Engineer.

**About the position**

Our climate tech startup is looking for a junior profile to assist the CTO as a Data Engineer. Are you ambitious, proactive, autonomous, passionate about tech and Big Data, and eager to contribute to addressing climate change? Join us! We are seeking a bright and motivated individual to help develop our data processing and delivery infrastructure as well as deploy our AI models to production.

**Who are we?**

We are a deep tech climate startup operating at the intersection of AI, climate science, and risk modeling. It aims to develop state-of-the-art AI models to provide the most accurate estimations of climate risks (droughts, floods, etc.) over time frames ranging from a few months to several years. Despite its critical importance in operational decision-making, this field is currently underperforming and lacking innovation: a gap we aim to fill as the effects of climate change become increasingly severe.

The company was founded in 2023 by a repeat entrepreneur and his former PhD advisor at Columbia University (New York, USA). Pierre is renowned for his research in climate science and artificial intelligence, which was cited in reference to the latest Nobel Prize in Physics.

After 18 months of cutting-edge R&D and a recent €2M+ seed round, we're entering a new phase of growth. We are building a talented software team to bring our proprietary AI models to life through robust and scalable digital products.

• Offices in Montpellier and Paris
• Tech-driven, purpose-led, early-stage startup
• Backed by leading investors in climate and deeptech

**What will you work on?**

Under the guidance of the CTO, you will help develop the cloud infrastructure hosting all its applications. In a young infrastructure context, you will make important decisions and define technical directions that will shape the company. We are looking for someone highly autonomous with strong critical thinking skills.

**Your key responsibilities:**

● Conduct technical benchmarks and implement the best solutions.

● Develop Big Data solutions to optimize the processing of multi-dimensional datasets.

● Build ETL pipelines.

● Develop APIs.

● Industrialize AI models (MLOps).

● Deploy high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.

● Contribute to the development of CI/CD practices.

Depending on the topics you work on, you may use technologies such as

• ● Python
• ● Docker
• ● Terraform
• ● GitLab
• ● Core AWS services (S3, Lambda, ECS, EC2, etc.)
• ● Orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, etc.)
• ● Parallel computing tools
• ● HPC clusters (e.g., Slurm, AWS Parallel Computing)
• Most of your development will be in Python.
• **What we are looking for:**
• We’re seeking an autonomous, proactive, and resourceful individual capable of tackling complex and varied tasks.

Required Skills

• ● 2+ years of experience in data engineering and/or cloud development
• ● Education: Degree from an engineering or computer science school (Master level required) with a specialization in data processing, Big Data, or Cloud Computing.

● Technical Skills

• ○ Strong development skills and a solid grasp of best practices.
• ○ Proficiency in Python is a prerequisite for this role.
• ○ Advanced knowledge of Git for version control.
• ○ Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments.
• ○ Fluent in French and English, both written and spoken
• ○ Experience developing cloud services (preferably AWS)
• ○ Docker

● Soft Skills

• ○ Highly autonomous and proactive.
• ○ Reliable and constructive team player.
• ○ Strong motivation to reduce the impacts of climate change starting now!

Bonus Skills

● Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform).

● Knowledge of Docker is highly desirable.

● Understanding of Artificial Intelligence concepts.

**What We Offer:**

It provides a supportive work environment with stimulating projects aligned with each team member’s skills. The company is very flexible in its daily organization. A core team of three, including the CEO, is based in Montpellier, and the rest of the team works in Paris at Climate House.