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Stanford Health Care · 1 month ago

Lead Data Engineer - AI/ML

Palo Alto, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$94.35/hr - $125.03/hr

5+ years exp

Stanford Health Care is a leading healthcare provider dedicated to innovation and patient care. The Lead Data Engineer will build and maintain AI-driven data solutions to improve patient outcomes, collaborating with clinical and operational teams to deploy machine learning algorithms.

Health CareHealth DiagnosticsHospitalMedicalPrimary and Urgent Care

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Build end-to-end data pipelines and infrastructure for ML models used by the Data Science team and others at SHC

Understand the requirements of data processing and analysis pipelines and make appropriate technical design and interface decisions

Elucidating these requirements will require training, developing, and validating researcher-built or vendor provided machine learning algorithms on hospital data as well as working with other members of the data science team

Understand data flows among the SHC applications and use this knowledge to make recommendations and design decisions for languages, tools, and platforms used in software and data projects

Troubleshoot and debug environment and infrastructure problems found in production and non-production environments for projects by the Data Science Team

Work with other groups at SHC and the Technology and Digital Solutions (TDS) group to ensure servers and system maintenance based on updates, system requirements, data usage, and security requirements

Qualification

Data infrastructureMachine learning operationsCloud deployment strategiesSQLPythonRCode qualityResource managementAutomation approachesMentoringCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related, or equivalent working experience

5+ years experience in building data infrastructure for analytics teams, including ability to write code in SQL, R, or Python for processing large datasets in distributed cloud environments

Experience with cloud deployment strategies and CI/CD

Experience building and working with data infrastructure in a SaaS environment

Experience overseeing, developing or implementing machine learning operations (MLOps) processes

Experience mentoring junior engineers and enforcing best practices around code quality

Knowledge of multiple programming languages, commitment to choosing languages based on project-specific requirements, and willingness to learn new programming languages as necessary

Knowledge of resource management and automation approaches such as workflow runners

Collaborative mentality and excitement for iterative design working closely with the Data Science team

Company

Stanford Health Care

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Stanford Health Care is a healthcare center that treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, and primary care issues.

Founded in 1885

Palo Alto, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://stanfordhealthcare.org

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