Forward Deployed Engineer
Qualified Health PBC1 year ago
Base Salary
$140k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build ETL pipelines using PySpark, SQL, and Azure data services for complex healthcare datasets.
- Develop data quality validation frameworks and healthcare-specific validation rules, and troubleshoot schema, transformation, and performance issues.
- Build reusable integration components, optimize pipeline performance, and maintain technical documentation.
- Support production deployments through coordination with infrastructure teams and final testing.
- Advise health system partners on data mapping, transformation approaches, architecture decisions, schemas, access methods, and integration constraints.
- Communicate QC and backtesting findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders and coordinate data-quality issue resolution with the Data Integration Manager.
- Prototype AI-powered product features, data capabilities, proof-of-concept integrations, and analytical tools with product and engineering teams.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of tools, processes, technical standards, and reusable implementation patterns.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in data analytics, data engineering, or solution delivery, including data integration and ETL.
- Proficiency with PySpark, advanced SQL, and Excel.
- Experience building and maintaining production-grade ETL pipelines with error handling, monitoring, validation, and data-quality troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Blob Storage, and Delta Lake.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- Preferred experience with Epic Clarity, healthcare datasets, EHR, claims, clinical and laboratory data, and healthcare standards including FHIR, HL7v2, DICOM, LOINC, SNOMED, and ICD-10.
- Preferred understanding of HIPAA requirements, healthcare data security, dimensional modeling, modern data architecture, and performance tuning.
- Preferred experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, LIMS/PACS integrations, healthcare data formats, AI-assisted development tools, and client-facing technical consulting or solutions engineering.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary of $140,000-$200,000, plus equity and benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible working hours and hybrid work options.
- Inclusive environment focused on creativity, innovation, and mission-driven healthcare impact.
About Qualified Health PBC
Qualified Health PBC builds an enterprise AI platform for health systems, combining workflow automation, generative AI agent development, clinical safeguards, real-time monitoring, and end-to-end governance. The company sells software and partnership-based deployment services to drive measurable clinical and financial outcomes for hospitals and health networks. Headquartered in Palo Alto, it reports reach to over 500,000 users across top U.S. health systems and is backed by investors including NEA, Transformation Capital, and SignalFire.