At Cogstate, we’re advancing the science of brain health - making it faster, easier, and more accurate to assess cognition across clinical trials, healthcare settings, and everyday life.
Our digital cognitive assessments are trusted by researchers, clinicians, and pharmaceutical partners around the world, helping to drive breakthroughs in neuroscience and improve outcomes for people living with neurological conditions. Founded on decades of cognitive science and backed by rigorous validation, Cogstate’s assessments are used in more than 150 countries and over 2,000 clinical trials.
Our global team of experts - spanning psychology, data science, operations, and technology - works together to solve complex challenges in brain health assessment, always with a patient-first mindset. Whether we’re supporting a multinational Alzheimer’s trial or developing tools to bring cognitive testing into routine care, our work is meaningful, collaborative, and constantly evolving.
At Cogstate, we’re not just imagining the future of brain health - we’re building it.
That’s why we’re seeking a Data Engineer responsible for building and maintaining Cogstate’s data infrastructure using best practice approach and engineering. The position will have a central role for establishing and maintaining data pipelines and reporting tables using Azure Databricks, working closely with other members of the data and scientific services team and being a point of contact for the data platform and associated data reporting.
Core Responsibilities
- Understand Cogstate data sources and develop data pipelines using Databricks to bring all data into the data lake.
- Design, develop, implement, and tune large-scale distributed systems and pipelines that process large volumes of data; focusing on scalability, low-latency, and fault-tolerance in every system
- Developing scalable and re-usable frameworks for ingesting data into Azure Databricks, incorporating standards and best practices into engineering solutions
- Databricks engineering - query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging pipelines.
- Deep understanding of ETL/ELT design methodologies, architecture, strategy, and tactics for complex ETL solutions, including CI/CD skills.
- Develop high performance scripts in PySpark to achieve objectives of enterprise data, BI, data visualization and analytics needs.
- Data processing/transformation using various technologies such as Apache Spark, SQL, Python/Scala and Azure cloud services.
- Manage code versions in source control and coordinate changes across teams by leveraging Github.
- Participate in architecture design and discussions, provide logical and physical data design, and database modelling
- Be part of the Agile team to ensure availability of data to internal and external users.
- Organize and manage data shares.
- Solve complex data issues around data integration, data quality, and other data processing incidents
- Work with business system owners to resolve source data issues and refine transformation rules
Qualifications
- BS/BA in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field or relevant experience
- 2+ years in implementing data engineering solutions in PySpark in Databricks
- Knowledge of relational databases and Apache Spark.
- Strong knowledge of Databricks configuration, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
- Testing, automation and orchestration, including Github and Azure functions.
- Experience with development tools for CI/CD.
- Deep expertise in programming languages for data processes (PySpark, Python, Scala).
- Experience with relational databases like SQL Server writing complex SQL transformations
What’s In It For You
- Remote Work Practices: Cogstate is a virtual first company. Cogstate employees can work from anywhere where Cogstate is registered to business within the United States, Australia, or the United Kingdom!
- Generous Paid Time-off: Cogstate employees receive 20 days of vacation leave, 10 days of personal leave and 10 paid public holidays.
- 401(k) Matching: As you invest in yourself and your future, Cogstate invests in you too: we match up to3% of your yearly salary in Cogstate’s 401k program.
- Competitive Salary: We offer competitive base salaries plus additional earning opportunities based on the position.
- Health, Dental & Vision Coverage: We've invested in comprehensive health & dental insurance options with competitive company contributions to help when you need it most. We also offer free vision insurance for all full-time employees.
- Short-Term & Long Term Disability Life Insurance: 100% employer sponsored
- Pre-Tax Benefits: Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Learning & Development Opportunities: Cogstate offers a robust learning program from mentorships to assistance with programs to improve knowledge or obtain certifications in applicable areas of interest.
Our Culture
We bring our whole selves to work every day. We’re courageous and we deliver together. We’re passionate individuals who enjoy working together. We’re brave enough and care enough to have the right conversations to get the best outcome and are famous for our can-do attitude. We see challenges as opportunities and move with pace to achieve our goals.
If you’re ready to help us in our journey to optimize the measurement of brain health around the world, please apply now!
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on the company. If you need assistance in applying please email [email protected].
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