Senior Translational Data & AI Engineer - AI-Native Pipelines

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Kaztronix is seeking a contract Senior Translational Data and AI Engineer to modernize ingestion and delivery of biomarker and clinical data on a centralized AWS-native lakehouse. You will build end-to-end pipelines, tests, and guardrails while collaborating with the lead engineer on a fast, reproducible stack.

The role emphasizes translating scientific requirements into durable data models and scalable workflows, including legacy R/PySpark integration and AI-assisted tooling.

Qualifications

• AI-native engineering experience building AI-assisted pipelines and guardrails.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in CS, Data Eng, Bioinformatics, or related field.
• 4+ years of data engineering with production pipelines on AWS (S3, ECS/Fargate, Redshift or equivalent).
• Strong Python and SQL with modern data engineering libraries.
• Hands-on with dbt and workflow tools (Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect).
• Data quality instincts to catch silent failures and ensure complete deliveries.
• Familiarity with lakehouse architectures, ETL, and multi-modal data schemas.
• Ability to work with complex scientific/biomarker data or ramp quickly.
• Experience handling PHI-adjacent clinical data under contractor policies.
• Willingness to work with legacy R or PySpark code to extract rules.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain orchestrated ingestion pipelines for genomics, proteomics, and other data sources.
• Develop layered transformation models with test coverage and data-quality guardrails.
• Implement clinical data ingestion and reconciliation against standards (SDTM/ADaM).
• Deliver platform infrastructure: APIs, CI/CD, containers, observability, and performance tuning.
• Migrate legacy logic to new platform implementations, codify rules.
• Translate research requirements into durable data models and contracts.
• Identify repetitive processes and automate workflows with guardrails and AI-assisted tooling.
• Participate in design reviews and enforce robust patterns.
• Collaborate with lead engineer to accelerate delivery through paired sessions and PR reviews.
• Ensure reproducibility with CI on PRs and automated tests.

Skills

AI-native engineering

Python

SQL

dbt

Dagster

Airflow

Data quality

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Data Eng/Bioinformatics

Tools

R

PySpark

Docker/ECS

Job description

Kaztronix is seeking a contract Senior Translational Data and AI Engineer to modernize ingestion and delivery of biomarker and clinical data on a centralized AWS-native lakehouse. You will build end-to-end pipelines, tests, and guardrails while collaborating with the lead engineer on a fast, reproducible stack.

The role emphasizes translating scientific requirements into durable data models and scalable workflows, including legacy R/PySpark integration and AI-assisted tooling.