Senior Data Engineer

Rad AI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision & Life

HSA with employer match

401(k)

Paid holidays

Flexible PTO

Equipment stipend

Job summary

Rad AI is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to design and maintain a scalable data platform, pipelines, and management tools. You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to meet data needs for model training, monitoring, and production, while ensuring data quality, security, and governance.

The role requires 5+ years in data engineering, experience with distributed pipelines and big data tech, and hands-on work with SQL/NoSQL databases.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Experience designing distributed data pipelines with big data technologies.
• Hands-on experience building scalable data infrastructure; IaC like Terraform.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL).
• Prior software engineering experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data architectures and pipelines.
• Maintain data quality, security, and governance across platforms.
• Collaborate with researchers and stakeholders on data needs and models.
• Own data engineering projects from design to deployment.
• Evaluate data technologies to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Develop and enforce standards for a high-scale data platform.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed data pipelines

Big data technologies

SQL

NoSQL databases

Terraform

Software engineering

Tools

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%.

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, and ranked by Deloitte 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 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.

Join our world‑class team as we build and deploy AI solutions that empower physicians and transform patient care—making a meaningful impact on millions of lives. Driven by our mission, we prioritize transparency, inclusion, and close collaboration, bringing together exceptional people to revolutionize healthcare. If you're passionate about driving innovation and delivering impactful healthcare solutions, we'd love to hear from you!

To learn more about what it's like to work at Rad AI, visit https://www.radai.com/life-at-rad-ai and be sure to follow us on LinkedIn to stay up to date!

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 applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Compensation Range: $145K - $200K