Data Engineer vs Research Scientist
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Pay
Data Engineer
$150,000 typical, a year
Most Data Engineers earn $127,100 to $180,000 a year.
From 1,331 postings that list pay
3,413 open jobs now
Research Scientist
$143,400 typical, a year
Most Research Scientists earn $107,400 to $179,500 a year.
From 1,031 postings that list pay
2,211 open jobs now
Data Engineers typically earn about $6,600 more a year than Research Scientists.
What each one does
Data Engineer
- Design and build scalable data pipelines to ingest and process large datasets.
- Develop and maintain data models using SQL and transformation tools.
- Implement data quality controls and monitoring to ensure system reliability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Optimize data systems for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Document data architectures and provide technical guidance to the team.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Research Scientist
- Design and execute experiments to answer scientific questions or test hypotheses.
- Analyze data and interpret results to support project decisions and findings.
- Develop and optimize laboratory methods, assays, and protocols for research.
- Document experimental procedures, results, and data in lab notebooks and reports.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals and objectives.
- Present research findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
Summed up from 30 job postings
Skills employers ask for
Asked for in both
- Python6 in 10 Data Engineer postings, 2 in 10 Research Scientist postings
More common in Data Engineer postings
- SQL6 in 10
- Data Engineering6 in 10
- Data Pipeline4 in 10
- Data Modeling4 in 10
- AWS3 in 10
- Databricks3 in 10
- ETL/ELT3 in 10
- Snowflake3 in 10
- Data Warehousing3 in 10
More common in Research Scientist postings
- Molecular Biology2 in 10
- Data Analysis2 in 10
- Flow Cytometry1 in 10
- Immunology1 in 10
- Biochemistry1 in 10
- Cell Culture1 in 10
- Assay Development1 in 10
- R1 in 10
- Cell Biology1 in 10
Out of each role's current postings.
Open jobs
Data Engineer
Data Engineer
Unnamed employerPay not stated Pittsburgh, PA, 15238SSISOraclePower BISQLData Warehousing +6Data Engineer, gUP Engineering
Google LLCPay not stated Boulder, CO, USAPythonSQLMachine Learning ModelsJavaDistributed Systems +6- Pay not stated Moraine, OH, United StatesCI/CDUnity CatalogGitPythonDatabricks +13
Research Scientist
- $170k - $200k/yrstated Sunnyvale, CA, United StatesProcess DevelopmentBiochemistryElectronicsMolecular AssayElectrochemistry +2
- $150k - $170k/yrstated Sunnyvale, CA, United StatesBiochemistryProcess DevelopmentElectronicsTechnical DocumentationElectrochemistry +2
Senior Scientist, Discovery Science
Flagship Pioneering, Inc.$126k - $181,500/yrstated Cambridge, MA USADrug DiscoveryMolecular BiologyProteomicsNext- Generation Sequencing (NGS)Bioinformatics +5
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