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Vera Institute of Justice · 16 hours ago

Spring 2026 - Data Engineering Intern, Research Central

positionLos Angeles, CA
timeInternship
remoteHybrid
seniorityIntern
money$16/hr - $25/hr
workcardStart in 2026 Spring

Vera Institute of Justice is a non-profit organization focused on advancing justice, particularly racial justice. They are seeking a Data Engineering Intern to support the construction and maintenance of a centralized data ingestion/processing framework and data warehouse to assist researchers in their initiatives.

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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

PythonSQLGitHubGoogle Cloud PlatformAirflowDockerBigQueryData modelingData qualityData ingestionCuriosity about researchCommitment to equity

Required

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

Preferred

Professional, personal or academic engagement with issues of mass incarceration and mass criminalization
Experience working with Google Cloud Platform and its tools, including Airflow

Benefits

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.

Company

Vera Institute of Justice

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Vera Institute of Justice is an independent nonprofit national research and policy organization.
dateFounded in 1961
location
New York, New York, USA
people-size201-500 employees
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https://www.vera.org

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$0.25M
Key Investors
Chubb
2023-03-21Grant· $0.25M

Leadership Team

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Insha Rahman
Vice President, Advocacy and Partnerships
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Tracey Wilmot
Vice President, Chief People Officer
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