I think they want data scientist to do plain-old-data-engineer work, but not just plain-old-data-engineer work. Getting / cleaning data is part of the job desc

I think they want data scientist to do plain-old-data-engineer work, but not just plain-old-data-engineer work. Getting / cleaning data is part of the job description, IMHO. You can't be a data scientist and entirely reliant on others to do data cleaning, or you'll programming through Slack messages.