Data Engineer, Research Informatics Pipelines

2000 Montefiore Health System, Inc.; City of Yonkers (NY); On-site; USD 128,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Montefiore Medical Center in Yonkers, NY seeks a Data Engineer, Research Informatics to design and maintain scalable data pipelines for multi-source healthcare data including EHRs, registries, and external data sources.

You will collaborate with clinicians, biostatisticians, data scientists, and cross-functional teams to translate complex research questions into scalable data solutions and robust data models that support cohort discovery, phenotyping, trials, and real-world evidence generation.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent research or industry experience in AI, computer science, biomedical informatics, or a related field.
• Experience with GPU or high-performance computing, reproducible model training and inference, containers, SQL, APIs, or research data platforms.
• Familiarity with clinical research workflows, FAIR data practices, common data models, biomedical ontologies, data provenance, human review, or responsible AI assessment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain research data pipelines that integrate clinical records, text, imaging, and other approved data sources.
• Document data definitions, quality checks, metadata, lineage, and transformations to support FAIR aligned reuse.
• Help implement standardized, governed data access workflows and reusable tools for cohort discovery, phenotyping, trial feasibility, recruitment planning, and research analytics.
• Translate investigator needs into scoped requirements and track delivery.
• Develop, benchmark, and validate AI methods, including information extraction, multimodal models, large or vision language models, and interpretable or knowledge informed approaches when suitable for the use case.
• Turn validated methods into maintainable research services and interfaces, with version control, automated tests, monitoring, user documentation, and clear handoff to authorized operational partners.
• Set evaluation plans with investigators and clinical experts, including baselines, validation splits, human review, error analysis, reproducibility checks, and assessment of subgroup performance and potential bias.
• Work with ICTR, the Data Science Institute, and Montefiore data, IT, security, privacy, and oversight partners to implement approved access and governance requirements.
• Prepare technical evidence for review and elevate higher risk use cases through established channels.
• Support investigators through consultations, demonstrations, training materials, and reusable examples; contribute technical content to publications, grants, and multi-site research collaborations.
• Track service measures such as request turnaround, cohort or feasibility output quality, reuse of methods, model performance, and investigator feedback; report progress and operational issues.

Skills

GPU / HPC

Containers

SQL

APIs

Research data platforms

Education

Master’s degree in AI/CS/biomedical informatics

Tools

Epic Clarity

Caboodle

FHIR

OMOP

Job description

Montefiore Medical Center in Yonkers, NY seeks a Data Engineer, Research Informatics to design and maintain scalable data pipelines for multi-source healthcare data including EHRs, registries, and external data sources.

You will collaborate with clinicians, biostatisticians, data scientists, and cross-functional teams to translate complex research questions into scalable data solutions and robust data models that support cohort discovery, phenotyping, trials, and real-world evidence generation.