Cortica

Healthcare

SeniorAIDataEngineer

$160–200k San Diego, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Senior AI Data Engineer at Cortica. Skills: AI Data Engineering, Data Ecosystem Architecture, MLOps, Full-stack data. Gather stakeholder requirements. Clarify project requirements”

What You'll Achieve.

Power care decisions; Power financial planning; Power operational efficiency; Drive clinical care decisions; Drive financial planning; Drive operational performance improvements; Surface insights proactively

Industry & Context.

Healthcare
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years data engineering experience, Expert-level Python skills, Deep SQL proficiency, 2+ years AI first development workflows, 4+ years AWS or Azure big data services, 1+ year Snowflake experience, 2+ years orchestration frameworks, 2+ years Salesforce experience, Kimball dimensional modeling experience, Power BI experience, API integration experience, Application development literacy, Reside in CA, TX, NC, WA, ID, NV, AZ, CO, KS, AR, LA, AL, GA, FL, SC, TN, VA, MD, NJ, DE, IL, WI, MI, OH, MA, PA, NH, CT

Nice to Have

PhD preferred, GCP Professional Data Engineer, AWS Data Analytics, Databricks Certified, dbt Certified

What You'll Do.

Gather stakeholder requirements

Clarify project requirements

Document project requirements

Translate requirements into solutions

Choose storage approach

Choose pipeline approach

Choose modeling approach

Choose delivery approach

Own testing end-to-end

Deploy solutions to production

Monitor post-deployment health

Iterate based on feedback

Run AI coding sessions

Orchestrate AI outputs

Design verification loops

Build MCP integrations

Connect AI agents to databases

Connect AI agents to APIs

Connect AI agents to tooling

Prefer frontier models

Rely on AI acceleration

Empower analytics team members

Build reusable pipeline components

Build well-documented pipeline components

Deliver data products

Build lightweight internal applications

Design agentic workflows

Build AI-powered data tools

Integrate with Salesforce

Integrate using event-driven patterns

Ensure HIPAA compliance

Enforce data governance standards

Document architecture

Collaborate across IT

Collaborate across finance

Collaborate across clinical operations

Collaborate across data science

Act as connective tissue

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Data science teams; Finance teams; Clinical operations teams; IT teams

Process & Methodology

Full Lifecycle Project Ownership

Free ATS check

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