Senior Data Engineer, Healthcare AI Platform

Tempus AI; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempus AI in Chicago is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own the data platform supporting a multi-modal healthcare evaluation engine. You will design and maintain pipelines processing structured and unstructured data from EHR, genomics, and imaging to enable real-time AI agents.

You will build dbt models on BigQuery, implement robust data quality and lineage, and develop TypeScript services and Terraform-based infrastructure to support scalable, compliant healthcare data applications.

Qualifications

• Primary degree in CS or related field is required.
• Master's or PhD preferred for advanced roles.
• Equivalent professional experience will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Build pipelines feeding multi-modal AI agents across EHR, genomics, and imaging data.
• Own warehouse and transformations with dbt models on BigQuery and quality tests.
• Model multi-domain patient data with normalized and dimensional design.
• Develop event-driven ingestion and delivery with Pub/Sub and idempotent retries.
• Create data access patterns and metadata layers for autonomous agent queries.
• Write TypeScript services and APIs to coordinate agents and platform services.
• Manage Terraform-based infrastructure (GCP) including IAM and access control.
• Scale across federated hospital networks with high availability.
• Ensure data quality and lineage with traceability to source systems.
• Implement observability, error tracking, and governance for HIPAA compliance.

Skills

Data engineering

GCP fluency

Analytics engineering

Infrastructure as code

Software development

Python/TypeScript

Event-driven systems

Healthcare data standards

HIPAA/SOC2

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's or PhD preferred

Equivalent professional experience considered

Tools

BigQuery

dbt

Terraform

Pub/Sub

Cloud SQL

HL7/FHIR

DICOM

Kubernetes

Job description

Tempus AI in Chicago is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own the data platform supporting a multi-modal healthcare evaluation engine. You will design and maintain pipelines processing structured and unstructured data from EHR, genomics, and imaging to enable real-time AI agents.

You will build dbt models on BigQuery, implement robust data quality and lineage, and develop TypeScript services and Terraform-based infrastructure to support scalable, compliant healthcare data applications.