Senior Data Engineer — AI Biomedical Data Platform (Remote)

Absentia Labs; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote or hybrid work

Equity participation

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Absentia Labs is building an AI-driven biomedical data platform in New York with a Senior Data Engineer who will own the data backbone. You’ll partner with ML engineers, scientists, and product leads in a deeply technical, learning-focused environment.

The role supports flexible remote or hybrid work and is based in New York, NY (hybrid). You’ll shape data models, pipelines, and governance for scientific workloads and enable scalable ML training and inference.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data/ML infra with ownership of production systems.
• Experience designing and operating production-grade data pipelines.
• Strong Python and data-centric software engineering practices.
• Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with distributed data processing and orchestration tools.
• Experience supporting ML/AI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead end-to-end data systems for large-scale biomedical datasets.
• Define and evolve schema-driven data models.
• Set best practices for data quality, provenance, lineage, and versioning.
• Build and operate cloud-native infrastructure (data lakes, warehouses, storage, streaming).
• Design pipelines for batch and streaming access for ML training, evaluation, and inference.
• Translate research needs into durable data abstractions with ML engineers and scientists.
• Make principled trade-offs across performance, cost, flexibility, and correctness.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews and mentorship.
• Proactively address systemic risks across data integrity and scalability.

Skills

5+ years experience

Production data pipelines

Python

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Data modeling

Tools

Spark

Beam

Ray

Airflow

Dagster

Job description

Absentia Labs is building an AI-driven biomedical data platform in New York with a Senior Data Engineer who will own the data backbone. You’ll partner with ML engineers, scientists, and product leads in a deeply technical, learning-focused environment.

The role supports flexible remote or hybrid work and is based in New York, NY (hybrid). You’ll shape data models, pipelines, and governance for scientific workloads and enable scalable ML training and inference.