Staff Data Engineer
Iterative Health7 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the data layer and architecture, including models, schemas, and infrastructure decisions.
- Build and operate pipelines and transformations for ingestion, normalization, enrichment, analytics, ML training, and model serving.
- Build data quality and observability systems that identify and enable correction of data issues.
- Partner with ML and engineering teams to define what is modelable and establish training data foundations.
- Define governance for clinical and operational data.
- Evaluate data-stack tools and technologies and make build-versus-buy recommendations.
- Help shape engineering culture, technical decision-making, design practices, and code quality.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles, with significant experience building data systems.
- Experience with healthcare data such as HL7, FHIR, claims, or EHR extracts, or with other complex regulated data domains.
- Deep experience modeling and integrating heterogeneous data sources with inconsistent schemas and quality.
- Experience applying AI and LLMs to extraction, normalization, classification, and entity-resolution problems.
- Strong understanding of data infrastructure for feature engineering, training-data pipelines, and model serving.
- Fluency in SQL and at least one of Python, Java, Scala, or Go, with experience in distributed processing, streaming, cloud-native storage, orchestration, and transformation frameworks.
- Experience building data systems from early stages and making foundational decisions with incomplete information.
- Ability to improve engineering quality through code review, design guidance, and technical discussion.
- Preferred: experience building data infrastructure for ML model training and evaluation.
- Preferred: familiarity with clinical trial operations, EDC systems, or life sciences data.
- Preferred: SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar compliance experience in engineering practice.
- Preferred: a record of making unreliable data systems dependable.
Benefits
- New York base pay range is $200,000–$325,000 USD per year.
- The company emphasizes an equitable and inclusive culture and provides accommodations for the application and interview process.
About Iterative Health
Iterative Health develops AI-driven software for gastroenterology, including tools that support colorectal cancer screening and endoscopic disease assessment, and provides clinical trial services to sponsors and research teams. The company also operates a network of more than 100 research sites across the US, Europe, India, and Australia to accelerate study enrollment and execution. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it sells to hospitals, GI practices, and biopharma sponsors.