Vera Institute of Justice · 17 hours ago
Summer 2026 - Data Engineering Intern, Research Central
Brooklyn, NY
Internship
Hybrid
Intern
$17/hr - $25/hr
Start in 2026 SummerVera Institute of Justice is a non-profit organization focused on advancing justice, particularly racial justice. They are seeking a Data Engineering Intern for their Research Department's Central Data Science team to support the construction and maintenance of a centralized data ingestion/processing framework and data warehouse.
Innovation ManagementLaw EnforcementSocial Impact
Responsibilities
Data ingestion
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
Central data model construction
Contribute code to building a central data model for unrestricted datasets
Code review and codebase maintenance
Help maintain existing codebase through reviewing requests
Coordinate with data science staff to ensure consistency of datasets, naming conventions, code repository structure, etc
Qualification
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
Working fluency in Python
Working fluency in SQL/relational databases
Working fluency in Cloud Technology (GCP and/or AWS)
Working fluency in GitHub
Working fluency in Airflow
Working fluency in Docker
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
Merit pay
Generous paid time off
A comprehensive health insurance plan
Student loan repayment benefits
Professional development training opportunities
Up to $2,000 annual for education costs and fees relevant to Vera work
Employer-funded retirement plan
Flexible time
Company
Vera Institute of Justice
Vera Institute of Justice is an independent nonprofit national research and policy organization.
Founded in 1961
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$0.25MKey Investors
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2023-03-21Grant· $0.25M
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