Election Analytics is a multidisciplinary team of reporters, developers, statisticians and modelers who work on written coverage, graphics, our polls and the election-night model. This is a highly collaborative role that will involve working with colleagues from Election Analytics, the Graphics department and Interactive News.

This is an in-office position in New York City or Washington, D.C., and includes regular attendance in the office four days each week. There may be some flexibility to work remotely per your departmental guidance.

To apply, you MUST include a cover letter of no more than 300 words that...

Explains how you approached a specific instance where you had to balance engineering principles with the need to meet a deadline; and

Explains specifically why you are interested in covering elections

Create test data for the election-night mathematical model and for live election-night Graphics

Build and improve pipelines for ingesting, processing, and displaying large data sets, precinct data or absentee files.

Build and maintain observability tools for the model that allow for fast debugging on election night and clear monitoring of precinct data entering the model

Work with stakeholders to understand the data needs and schema requirements

Develop and maintain libraries in R that form the basis of our apps

Balance engineering principles with the need to move at the speed of news

Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Graphics/Multimedia Editor, Elections Data Developer (Election Analytics)

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Required

Preferred

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The New York Times

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