Spring 2026 - Data Engineering Intern, Research Central Job at Vera Institute Of Justice, Brooklyn, NY

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  • Vera Institute Of Justice
  • Brooklyn, NY

Job Description

Spring 2026 - Data Engineering Intern, Research Central

The Data Engineering Intern for the Research Department's Central Data Science team at Vera is an opportunity for a college student or recent grad to immerse themselves into working in a data role at a non-profit organization. Their work will support the construction and maintenance of a centralized data ingestion/processing framework and data warehouse to support researchers who work with public and/or large-scale data in national and place-based initiatives.

About the Role

The data engineering intern will participate in all day-to-day team activities, ranging from project planning and execution, code review sessions, pair programming, social activities, and more. They will work directly with a senior data engineer on the team on a range of responsibilities, including data collection, data modeling, automation, building data infrastructure, and ensuring data quality.

In addition to day-to-day data tasks, the intern will focus on a project that they will work on over the course of their internship that is relevant to their interests and experience. This might involve helping to design and manage large-scale data infrastructure systems, creating computational frameworks, designing data models, or building new tools to empower our organization's researchers or community partners to leverage and improve Vera's existing repository of data. Depending on their interest, other day-to-day tasks could include exploratory analyses, analytical software development, web scraping, or other related areas of interest.

This is a commitment over the Fall 2025 semester with some flexibility as to start and end date.

What You'll Do:

  • Integrate new sources of criminal justice, immigration, and economics data into our internally collected data; clean, transform, organize, ensure quality of production data
  • Refactor existing web scrapers and data processes to new centralized infrastructure and frameworks
  • Contribute code to building a central data model for unrestricted datasets
  • Help maintain existing codebase through reviewing requests
  • Coordinate with data science staff to ensure consistency of datasets, naming conventions, code repository structure, etc.
  • Other support tasks, as needed

What Qualifications Are We Looking For?

  • Demonstrated proficiency working with data collection and processing in Python, with preference for experience using SQL and Python Pandas library
  • Proficiency developing code collaboratively using GitHub
  • Commitment to advancing racial and gender equity
  • Curiosity about emerging research and advocacy in the criminal justice space and/or immigration spaces
  • Wrestles with creative and concrete ways to use data to shift power and advance equity and inclusion
  • Professional, personal or academic engagement with issues of mass incarceration and mass criminalization
  • Experience working with Google Cloud Platform and its tools, including Airflow
Technical Knowledge We Need You To Be Prepared To Use

The current tech stack uses the following technologies and working familiarity in the following is preferred:

  • Python
  • GitHub
  • Google Cloud Platform and/or AWS
  • BigQuery and/or PostgreSQL (or similar relational database technology)
  • Airflow
  • Docker
Location

Please note this role will report to our Brooklyn, NY, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, LA, Los Angeles, CA office, or will be remotely located. Vera interns and employees adhere to a hybrid schedule and are in-office on an alternating schedule. Full-time positions generally amount to 10 days per month. Part-time positions generally amount to 5 days per month.

Schedule

The intern should be available to work up to 15 hours per week during the Spring, with some flexibility to accommodate personal and academic schedules.

Compensation

The compensation range for internships is $16.00 - $25.00 per hour. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors including but not limited to experience and performance. Applicants may choose to receive academic credit. For those who need to earn academic credit, Vera will gladly assist in working with the school or program to make arrangements and meet requirements.

How To Apply

Please submit cover letter and resume. In your cover letter, please explain why you are passionate about criminal justice reform and what you hope to gain from this internship.

Vera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior record of arrest or conviction, citizenship status, current employment status, or caregiver status.

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