Data Engineer

Engg; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

HSA with employer match

401(k)

Job summary

Rad AI in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and maintain scalable data platforms, pipelines, and management tools. You will work with Airflow, AWS Glue, Spark, and other big data technologies, collaborating with researchers and stakeholders to meet data needs.

This role focuses on building robust data infrastructure, ensuring quality, security, and scalability in a healthcare AI context.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Experience designing distributed data pipelines on large-scale data sets.
• Hands-on experience building scalable data infra in complex environments.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL).
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
• Software engineering background is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design data architecture for scalable, efficient pipelines.
• Establish internal standards for style, maintenance, and best practices for a high-scale data platform.
• Collaborate with researchers and stakeholders to understand data needs and develop solutions.
• Take ownership of data engineering projects and design, develop, and maintain high-quality data solutions.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and security with validation, monitoring, and access controls.
• Evaluate and recommend data technologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Skills

Data Engineering

Distributed Pipelines

Big Data

Data Quality

Security

Tools

Apache Airflow

AWS Glue

Spark

Terraform

DynamoDB

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Job description

ABOUT RAD AI At Rad AI, we’re on a mission to transform healthcare with artificial intelligence. Founded by a radiologist, our AI-driven solutions are revolutionizing radiology—saving time, reducing burnout, and improving patient care. With one of the largest proprietary radiology report datasets in the world, our AI has helped uncover hundreds of new cancer diagnoses and reduced error rates in tens of millions of radiology reports by nearly 50%. Rad AI has secured over $140M in funding, including a recently oversubscribed Series C ($68M round) led by Transformation Capital, bringing our valuation to $528M. Our investors include Khosla Ventures, World Innovation Lab, Gradient Ventures, Cone Health Ventures, and others—all backing our mission to empower physicians with cutting-edge AI. Our latest advancements in generative AI are used by thousands of radiologists daily, supporting more than one-third of radiology groups and healthcare systems and nearly 50% of all medical imaging in the U.S. at partners including Cone Health, Jefferson Einstein Health, Geisinger, Guthrie Healthcare System, and Henry Ford Health. Recognized as one of the most promising healthcare AI companies by CB Insights and AuntMinnie https://www.radai.com/news/auntminnie-recognizes-rad-ai-omni-reporting-as-2023s-best-new-radiology-software, and ranked by Deloitte https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/fast500-winners.html as the 19th fastest-growing company in North America, we are building AI-powered solutions that make a real impact. Most recently, Rad AI was named to CNBC’s Disruptor 50 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/2025-cnbc-disruptor-50-see-the-full-list-of-companies.html list, highlighting the innovation and momentum behind our mission. If you’re ready to shape the future of healthcare, we’d love to have you on our team!

Why Join Us: We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our engineering team. With our rapid client growth and ambitious plans for the year ahead, we are expanding the team and looking for a skilled professional to play a key role in building and maintaining data platform, pipelines, and management tools.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design and implement the data architecture, ensuring scalability, flexibility, and efficiency using pipeline authoring tools like Apache Airflow, AWS Glue and large-scale data processing technologies like Spark.
• Define and extend our internal standards for style, maintenance, and best practices for a high-scale data platform.
• Collaborate with researchers and other stakeholders to understand their data needs including model training and production monitoring systems and develop solutions that meet those requirements.
• Take ownership of key data engineering projects and work independently to design, develop, and maintain high-quality data solutions.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and security by implementing robust data validation, monitoring, and access controls.
• Evaluate and recommend data technologies and tools to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the data engineering process.

Who We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years relevant experience in data engineering.
• Expertise in designing and developing distributed data pipelines using big data technologies on large scale data sets.
• Deep and hands-on experience designing, planning, productionizing, maintaining and documenting reliable and scalable data infrastructure and data products in complex environments.
• Experience with various database technologies including SQL, NoSQL databases (e.g., AWS DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Postgresql).
• Designed, built and maintained data infrastructure using IaC like Terraform.
• Prior Software Engineering experience is a plus.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience working at an early stage startup.
• Experience in a HIPAA compliant environment.
• Experience working on machine learning or healthcare related projects.

Location Details:

• For roles listed as San Francisco - Onsite: This role will be based in our San Francisco office and we expect employees to work onsite four days per week. The remaining time may be worked remotely or onsite, depending on team and business needs.
• For roles listed as United States - Remote: This role is open to candidates located anywhere in the United States.
• For roles listed as San Francisco - Onsite + United States - Remote: We will prioritize candidates who can work onsite four days per week in San Francisco, while also considering remote candidates located anywhere in the United States.
• For US-Based Full-Time Roles, Rad AI offers a variety of benefits, including: Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision & Life insurance HSA (with employer match), FSA, & DCFSA 401(k) 11 Paid Company Holidays Flexible PTO policy Annual company-wide offsite Periodic team offsites Annual equipment stipend For roles based outside the US, your recruiter can share more details

At Rad AI, we value diversity and provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified