Software Engineer, AI-Driven Healthcare Data

RA Capital Management, LLC; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid health premiums

Wellness programs

Resources for work-life balance

Job summary

RA Capital Management seeks an early-career Software Engineer, Data/AI, to build and operate AI-enabled data platforms and intelligent workflows for healthcare data. You will connect LLMs with enterprise data, develop governed data access layers, and create agentic workflows to support self-service analytics and research processes.

The role emphasizes building scalable data pipelines, API development, and collaboration with AI/ML engineers, with a hybrid Boston-area work model and strong growth

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and an interest in building production systems.
• Strong foundation in data engineering and data modeling.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with Spark and Databricks is preferred.
• Experience building or integrating APIs, services, or workflow-oriented applications.
• Hands-on experience with, or a strong interest in, LLM-powered applications, AI agents, or agentic workflows.
• Familiarity with LLM tool use, structuring outputs, orchestration patterns, GraphQL, or other API-based data access methods.
• Experience working with healthcare or other regulated datasets is a plus.
• Strong communication, ownership, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable, production-grade data pipelines for healthcare datasets, including claims and provider data.
• Build and optimize data models to support analytical and AI-driven workloads.
• Develop high-quality Python and SQL code for data standardization, reconciliation, validation, and application workflows.
• Build AI-powered data applications and agentic workflows that connect LLMs with enterprise data and internal tools, retrieve information, execute multi-step tasks, and automate data and research processes with appropriate guardrails.
• Build and improve AI-native data access frameworks, including LLM-to-SQL and LLM-to-GraphQL patterns and reusable interfaces for structured data access.
• Build backend services, APIs, and reusable software components that power data and AI applications.
• Develop evaluation and testing frameworks to measure the accuracy, reliability, and performance of LLM-powered and agentic workflows.
• Write automated tests and contribute to CI/CD, deployment, and production support for data and AI systems.
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, healthcare data vendors, and internal stakeholders to translate user needs into production-ready data and AI solutions.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and governance for data pipelines and AI workflows.
• Document data architectures, AI-enabled workflows, and production systems.

Skills

Software fundamentals

Data modeling

Python/SQL

Spark/Databricks

APIs/workflows

LLM-powered apps

LLM tool use

Healthcare data familiarity

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS/SE/DS

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Spark

Databricks

GraphQL

Job description

RA Capital Management seeks an early-career Software Engineer, Data/AI, to build and operate AI-enabled data platforms and intelligent workflows for healthcare data. You will connect LLMs with enterprise data, develop governed data access layers, and create agentic workflows to support self-service analytics and research processes.

The role emphasizes building scalable data pipelines, API development, and collaboration with AI/ML engineers, with a hybrid Boston-area work model and strong growth