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Senior / Data Engineer

Summary

Builds and maintains patent/IP data pipelines, optimizing big-data processing (Spark/Flink) to fuel AI-driven innovation tools for R&D teams, ensuring scalability, performance, and compliance with regulatory standards.

About PatSnap
Patsnap empowers IP and R&D teams by providing better answers, so they can make faster decisions with more confidence. Founded in 2007, Patsnap is the global leader in AI-powered IP and R&D intelligence. Our domain-specific LLM, trained on our extensive proprietary innovation data, coupled with Hiro, our AI assistant, delivers actionable insights that increase productivity for IP tasks by 75% and reduce R&D wastage by 25%. IP and R&D teams collaborate better with a user-friendly platform across the entire innovation lifecycle. Over 15,000 companies trust Patsnap to innovate faster with AI, including NASA, Tesla, PayPal, Sanofi, Dow Chemical, and Wilson Sonsini.

Responsibilities

  • Manage daily operations of patent data and related data, including integration, parsing, storage, and backup, ensuring data security, stability, and availability;
  • Analyze and understand new data requirements, design data processing solutions, write relevant documentation, and implement code;
  • Monitor data quality, design and implement targeted optimization solutions, and continuously improve data integrity and accuracy;
  • Optimize data processing frameworks and performance, enhancing the efficiency of system data handling to support rapid iteration of product data;
  • Work closely with data architects, participate in architecture upgrades and updates, and enhance system scalability and stability.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or above in computer science, data engineering, software engineering, or related fields; at least 3 years of experience in data development;
  • Proficiency in Java or Python with a solid programming foundation;
  • Familiarity with basic components of big data processing, such as Flink and Spark, with experience in performance optimization preferred;
  • Familiarity with Linux systems and common operations;
  • Strong sense of responsibility and proactive learning ability, able to adapt flexibly in a fast-paced environment;
  • Clear thinking with great communication skills and team spirit, able to collaborate effectively with team members from diverse cultural backgrounds;
  • Basic understanding of data privacy and compliance, capable of working in a regulatory environment.

What this application asks

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Resume/CV, Full name, Email, Phone, Current location, Current company, LinkedIn URL, Twitter URL, GitHub URL, Portfolio URL, Other website

  • When are you available to start? written answer
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  • Which of the following best describes about you ability to communicate in Mandarin choose one · optional
  • What are your salary expectations (base and total earnings)? written answer

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