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By combining all the raw multimodal data from community health systems with validated AI models, we deliver regulatory-grade scientific insights and products that give teams the evidence to design better trials, enroll the right patients, and generate AI-powered insights that drive confident decisions across the development and commercial lifecycle.\nYour Role\nYou are an experienced analytics engineer who knows your way around clinical and electronic health record data. Your primary responsibility is to build, maintain, and optimize the transformation layer of our ELT pipeline, turning raw, messy clinical data into clean, well-modeled, analysis-ready datasets that our clients and internal teams can trust. You will own the full lifecycle of our data models: designing and implementing transformation logic, enforcing data quality and testing standards, optimizing pipeline performance, and documenting data models so they're discoverable and understandable across the organization. You will use your data expertise, programming abilities, and critical thinking skills to support our technical product team in scaling and growing our ability to provide meaningful data. Your team’s ultimate goal is to deliver the highest-quality data possible to our clients, who are building products that improve patient health. You will report to the Data Science Manager, under the Chief Data Officer.\nIn this role, you will be responsible for:\nQuerying complex source systems in a range of health data sources (e.g., EMRs, ECG data, DICOM data) to identify and map data elements in order to create high-quality datasets to support training AI algorithms and conducting in-depth analyses of patient journeys\n\nDeveloping and maintaining data transformation pipelines using dbt and Snowflake, ensuring data quality, lineage, and transparency.\n\nHarmonizing multimodal data from multiple health systems into a unified ontological layer ready for use by data scientists and AI developers, with input from clinical experts across the company.\n\nPerforming complex data extraction, manipulation, and summarization of large databases to create analytical data models;\n\nImplementing data quality tests, CI/CD and version control best practices for analytics codebases throughout the data modeling pipeline.\n\nSupporting software engineers in optimizing processes and technical solutions for de-identification and ETL of clinical data from disparate health system cloud environments to Dandelion Health’s data warehouse.\n\nWorking with experts in natural language processing (NLP) to structure and model discrete clinical concepts data that have been abstracted from unstructured and semi-structured text data.\n\nCollaborating with technical and clinical subject matter experts and Dandelion customers to translate research and model requirements into engineering solutions.\n\nYou are not afraid to dig into massive, confusing, disorganized new datasets and get them under control. You are excited to learn new environments, languages, and skills. This is a small, early stage company with enormous ambitions and everyone pitches in across the team.\nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (ex. 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We work with the full spectrum of healthcare data from tabular data, videos, images, waveforms, etc. If a health system collects it, we might work with it!\nIf this looks like a partial fit, please reach out, we would love to share more about the work we do for you to understand if it would be a good fit for you.\nThere is occasional travel for in-person company working days on roughly a quarterly basis.\nTeam Benefits\nRemote work and flexible hours. Availability needed for meetings, which we try to keep to a healthy minimum\n\nComplete wellness benefits including healthcare, dental, vision, PTO, sick days and more. 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