Implementation Engineer

About the role

Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland, CA

- Travel Requirement: Occasional travel (estimated 10%) to visit state partner sites for onboarding, relationship-building, and technical scoping. Travel is typically planned in advance and clustered around key milestones (e.g., new state launch, initiative kick-off).

Role Type: Full-time

Compensation: $97,000

Visa sponsorship: Not available

Hires remotely in: United States

Experience: 2+ years

Skills: SQL, Google Cloud Platform, Python, Relationship Building

Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring an Implementation Engineer to join our team! We’re a small, fast-moving group that partners with state governments to identify opportunities for impact in the criminal justice space. That’s where you come in. We’re looking for an empathetic, fast learner who is excited to own relationships with our state partners’ data teams and prepare raw data for analytics and product development.

About us

Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. We build technology to safely reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making. We work side-by-side with leaders of the criminal justice system, people in prison and on supervision, and ecosystem partners to build a better path forward.

People who succeed at Recidiviz lead with kindness and humility, assume good intent, learn from failure, and fix problems when they see them. They build deep relationships with and genuine empathy for the people we work with and the people our mission serves.

About the role

As an Implementation Engineer, you sit at the intersection of engineering and partner success. You are part of the technical bridge between Recidiviz's core engineering platform and our state partners - writing the code that gets messy, real-world criminal justice data flowing reliably into our systems, while working closely with state agencies, SEMs, and product teams to define what gets built and why.

This role blends hands-on ingest engineering (building and maintaining data pipelines for state partners) with a meaningful customer-facing dimension: scoping technical approaches with state IT staff, surfacing insights that shape product direction, and building the kind of trust that turns a state DOC into a long-term Recidiviz champion. You should be comfortable moving fluidly between deep technical work and clear stakeholder communication.

Travel Requirement: Occasional travel (estimated 10%) to visit state partner sites for onboarding, relationship-building, and technical scoping. Travel is typically planned in advance and clustered around key milestones (e.g., new state launch, initiative kick-off).

Core responsibilities

- Build and maintain state data ingest pipelines: write Python and SQL to ingest, normalize, and validate raw criminal justice data from state partners into Recidiviz's platform, handling messy schemas, legacy formats, and evolving data feeds.