Recidiviz
Helping create a smaller, fairer, safer justice system
Y Combinator — Backed by Y Combinator H-1B sponsor history — This employer has had H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in the last five fiscal years, per the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. The approval belongs to the employer and is not a commitment to sponsor this role.Company facts
- Founded
- 2019
- Employees
- 120
- Headquarters
- United States
- CEO
- Clementine Jacoby
- Type
- Non-Profit
About
Recidiviz is a non-profit technology company that drives meaningful changes in criminal justice systems and improved outcomes for justice-impacted individuals. Criminal justice data today is inefficient and ineffective: researchers, advocates, policymakers and practitioners each need funding and time for data collection and cleaning (for almost any data at all), and most data collected is too stale by the time it’s compiled to be useful. Recidiviz has built an open-source platform to ingest data from across data silos, link it, standardize it, and expose it in usable formats to the ecosystem. We provide products and analyses on top of this platform to help government agencies understand how their justice systems are functioning, set and track progress towards goals, drive evidence-based improvements to practice and policy, and ensure justice-impacted folks reenter their communities as safely and quickly as they can.
Open positions

Forward-Deployed Software Engineer
Forward-deployed software engineer serving as the technical bridge between Recidiviz's core team and state criminal justice partners: scoping deployments, untangling messy legacy data, and writing SQL/Python/TypeScript to integrate the data platform into government environments, with ~10% travel.

Data Analyst (Entry-Level)
Entry-level Data Analyst at Recidiviz, a civic-tech company building tools to reduce incarceration. Day to day you explore messy criminal justice datasets, run well-scoped analyses, build dashboards, and prepare data for state product launches using SQL, Python/Pandas, and tools like BigQuery and Looker.

Director of Development
Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland, CA Role Type: Full-time Compensation: $170,000 Reports to: Chief Growth Officer Visa sponsorship: Not available Hires remotely in: United States Experience: 8+ years - About…

Impact Analytics Data Analyst
Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland, CA Role Type: Full-time Compensation : $97,000 Visa sponsorship: Not available Hires remotely in: United States Experience: 2+ years of full-time, professional work…

Senior Policy Data Analyst
Senior Policy Data Analyst at Recidiviz analyzes state criminal justice (corrections and parole) data to model policy scenarios and support decision-makers. Day to day: wrangling administrative datasets with SQL and Python, statistical modeling, and communicating findings to state DOC leadership. Remote within the US.

State Partnerships Manager
Location: Remote— this role requires frequent travel for in-person meetings with state officials, plus travel to prisons and parole offices (average 3- 5 business days per month). Role Type: Full-time Compensation :…

Director of Product
Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland, CA Role Type: Full-time Compensation: $201,250 Reports to: Chief Impact Officer Visa sponsorship: Not available Hires remotely in: United States Experience: 8+ years -…

Implementation Engineer
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…

Data Analyst
Analyze criminal justice datasets to uncover trends and inform product decisions, then present findings to government partners and internal teams using SQL, Python, and visualization tools.