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Design, implement, and operate deterministic data pipelines that feed intelligence layers; ingest clinical, financial, scientific, and commercial data from REST APIs, XML feeds, and file-based sources into clean, queryable analytical layers; own the full lifecycle: pagination, rate limiting, auth, schema drift, idempotency, retries, monitoring, and alerting.\nModel and curate high-quality data assets. Perform entity resolution, schema design, and quality enforcement across disparate and heterogeneous data sources; ensure downstream models, agents and dashboards operate on clean and trustworthy data.\nSupport AI-native workflows. Build vector infrastructure (e.g., embeddings, indexing, retrieval) and structured data interfaces that GenAI agents and LLM orchestrators depend on; ensure AI layers have the right data in the right shape at the right time.\nUphold high engineering standards and collaborate broadly. Lead code and design reviews, establish testing and observability best practices, and mentor peers; partner with ML engineers, computational biologists, and company founders to translate scientific and business goals into maintainable, and scalable technical solutions.\nLeverage agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, or similar) to accelerate prototyping, refactoring, and debugging. \nWhat You’ll Bring\n5+ years of professional data engineering experience designing, building, and operating production pipelines end-to-end - including schema design for analytical workloads, entity resolution across messy real-world sources, and data quality enforcement at the pipeline level.\nDeep fluency in Python and SQL, writing performant, well-tested data transformation code (dbt or similar), with production experience in pipeline orchestration (e.g., Airflow, Prefect) covering DAG design, scheduling, dependency management, retry/backfill patterns, and alerting.\nHands-on cloud data stack experience across AWS or GCP (e.g., managed Postgres, object storage, query engines, serverless ETL) and working knowledge of IAM, networking, and infrastructure patterns; comfortable with Spark or Trino at scale over Parquet/Iceberg. 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