About Us

Motionworks is the trusted population intelligence expert that empowers customers with privacy-compliant, innovative data solutions to help them make smarter, more confident decisions. Motionworks uses observations from the real-world to develop travel, population, and customer insights. Our client portfolio spans advertising, government planning, tourism, transportation engineering, and retail. Powered by geospatial technology and exceptional data scientists, engineers, and UX experts, Motionworks delivers a wide range of high-value mobility insights that provide historical, real-time, normative, and predictive intelligence about how people move around the globe.

Job Summary

This role is ideal for someone passionate about enhancing the quality of data products and driven by a commitment to excellence. We want a person with expertise at the intersection of data engineering, demographics, and transportation analytics. As a Data Quality Engineer, you will play a key role in validating the consistency and accuracy of our data products over time, working closely with our data scientists and engineers to continuously improve data quality.

Key Responsibilities

· Develop structured testing plans to validate intermediate and final data products for consistency and reasonableness over time.

· Implement and manage a "Deploy/Not Ready" framework to decide when data products are ready for delivery.

· Identify data quality trends and collaborate with lead data scientists and engineers to develop and execute process improvement initiatives.

· Design, implement, and monitor "Black Box" testing plans from the perspective of clients interacting with our data feeds and API endpoints.

· Collaborate with product and team leads to create and manage "White Box" testing plans.

· Work with data engineers and the client delivery team to identify and address emerging data integrity issues ("unknown unknowns").

· Research and evaluate potential third-party data sources to enhance quality control testing processes.

· Document and maintain Data Governance plans and guidelines for our data products.

Required Qualifications and Skills

MS/BS in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, analytical City Planning, or Geography (or equivalent degree) with 5+ years of experience in quality control, quantitative analytics, data science, or data engineering. Master’s degree could be substituted for 2 years of experience.

· Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to explain complex data interactions clearly and concisely, both in written and verbal.

· Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to confidently present quality control findings to team members.

· Solid understanding of human mobility patterns for daily activities such as shopping, dining, and recreation.

· Proficiency in SQL for debugging and collaborating on ETL and data pipelines.

· Experience with cloud-based platforms such as Google GCP, Amazon AWS, or Microsoft Azure.

· Ability to build and test statistical models.

Salary Range

$115k-$150k

Location

San Diego, California (Little Italy)

Benefits

· Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents

· First year of employment gives two weeks of PTO, four weeks thereafter

· 14 holidays and flex holidays

· 401(k) plan

· Employee equity

Motionworks does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.