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# Associate Data Engineer at Cohort AI Inc.

- **Company:** Cohort AI Inc.
- **Location:** Naperville, IL
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohort/1ccefa5e-f19c-4753-99ff-e05cfdbf671e

## Job description

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for an Associate Data Engineer to join our team and help make data reliable, usable, and impactful.

In this role, you’ll work closely with different teams to bring in new datasets, clean and transform them, and make sure they’re ready for analysis. A big part of your work will involve building and maintaining data pipelines, mapping data into standard formats, and ensuring everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.

This is a great opportunity if you’re early in your data engineering career and enjoy working hands-on with data, solving real-world problems, and learning how large-scale data systems operate—especially in the healthcare space.

## RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Build and maintain data pipelines to ingest, transform, and organize data from multiple sources
- Work with clinical, claims, or similar structured datasets and map them into standardized data models
- Run data quality checks to ensure accuracy and consistency
- Use tools like Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, dbt, and command-line utilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data, product, and business stakeholders
- Help maintain ongoing data refresh processes and troubleshoot pipeline issues when needed

## NEEDED:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent hands-on experience)
- Strong working knowledge of SQL
- Familiarity with Python, PySpark, or SparkSQL
- Experience with modern data platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery
- Comfort working in a remote, collaborative environment
- Based in the United States (preferred time zones: Central, Mountain, or Pacific)

## About Cohort AI Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cohort AI is an AI-driven hiring engine that delivers pre-vetted, top-tier technical talent to fast-growing startups in days.
- **Entity Type**: Private (assumed bootstrapped or early-stage; no funding rounds publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Naperville, United States (with remote presence in India and Australia)
- **Founded**: 2024 (domain created September 2024)
- **Founders**: Not publicly named (company built by operators who previously scaled a hiring engine at Egen)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: AI-powered recruiting / talent acquisition technology
- Target customers: Startup founders, hiring managers, and VC-backed teams (B2B)
- Mission: “Hire unicorn talent fast” – eliminate hiring drag and deliver elite candidates at lightning speed

## Products & Services
- **SPEC (AI Recruiting Agents)**: A full-stack team of four AI agents:
  - **Sally the Sourcer**: Scans 5M+ profiles across LinkedIn, GitHub, and proprietary datasets to fill the pipeline.
  - **Pete the Prospector**: Turns cold leads into warm conversations via personalized, scalable outreach.
  - **Eva the Evaluator**: Runs technical assessments, resume reviews, and coding challenges to shortlist top-fit talent.
  - **Charlie the Closer**: Handles final interviews, offer logistics, and onboarding to reduce drop-off risk.
- **Service Model**: Cohort acts as a talent delivery engine – not a marketplace. Customers pay for results (top 3 pre-vetted engineers delivered in 72 hours), not activity.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**: 
  - Revenue: Not publicly available (likely pre-revenue or early traction)
  - Total Funding: Not publicly disclosed (company claims “no pitch decks”)
  - Team size: ~11 employees (LinkedIn)
  - Monthly web traffic: ~5,000 visits (thecohort.ai)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None publicly mentioned
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Launched publicly in late 2024 with a product built from first principles.
  - Recruiting for multiple senior remote roles across engineering, marketing, and data (indicates scaling).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed**: Delivers top 3 candidates in under 72 hours vs. traditional 6-week processes.
- **Full-stack AI agents**: Cover sourcing, prospecting, screening, and closing – fully automated.
- **Outcome-based pricing**: Pay only for delivered, pre-vetted candidates; no subscription or per-activity fees.
- **Built by operators**: Founders previously built and scaled hiring engines for high-growth tech companies (e.g., Egen), giving them firsthand insight into hiring pain points.
- **Precision targeting**: AI scores candidates on skills, culture fit, and trajectory, learning from hiring team decisions.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding the SPEC agent platform and improving accuracy.
- Scale the team to support increasing demand from startups.
- Maintain a remote-first, global hiring approach (US, India, Australia, and remote-anywhere roles).

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Most roles are fully remote (US or India), with flexible location options.
- **AI-first engineering**: Opportunity to build production-grade AI systems and data pipelines from scratch.
- **Tight-knit team**: Small (~11 people), flat structure, high ownership.
- **Impact**: Shape a product that directly solves a critical pain point for startups.
- **Values**: “No fluff. No pitch decks. Just results.” – fast-paced, execution-oriented environment.
- **Tech stack**: Python, SQL, Google Cloud, AWS Lambda, Docker, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, GitHub Actions, microservices.

## Sources
1. [thecohort.ai](https://www.thecohort.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn - Cohort AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/thecohortai)
3. [Cohort AI Inc. Careers (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohort)
4. [The Org - Cohort AI](https://theorg.com/org/cohort-ai)
5. [Torre - Cohort AI Inc.](https://torre.ai/teams/CohortAIInc)

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