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We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.\nHealth systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.\nJoining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.\nJoin our team as the expert you are now and create your future.\nRole SummaryThis role sits within a strategic investment to embed AI into how we operate, serve customers, and make decisions within our healthcare business. We're building a healthcare-wide AI data and context platform with a focus on deep domain expertise embedded throughout our architecture. Our goals are:\nTurn structured and unstructured information into trusted, reusable \"building blocks\" (semantic layers, retrieval services, and agent-ready interfaces) that accelerate product innovation\nDeliver transformational speed and leverage - faster time-to-insight, higher automation of knowledge work, and a foundation that scales AI safely and reliably as adoption grows\nUnlock new capabilities across our business and create the foundation that drives deeper domain innovation and cross-domain collaboration\nThis is a hands-on technical contributor who builds and maintains core AI/context data capabilities. The role executes key parts of the AI context platform - unstructured ingestion, embeddings, retrieval, and semantic layers - working closely with senior engineers and cross-functional partners to ship reliable, production-grade AI data products.\nKey Responsibilities\nBuild and contribute to the AI context platform\nImplement end-to-end pipelines: ingestion → parsing/chunking → enrichment → embeddings → vector indexing → retrieval/serving\n\nBuild andmaintainpatterns for incremental refresh, backfills, re-embeddings, deduplication, and lineage across unstructured sources\n\nContribute to retrieval quality improvements (query strategies, hybrid search, metadata filtering) in partnership with AI engineers\n\nDeliver semantic and governed data products\nImplement semantic layers (metrics/entities) that power BI and agent reasoning consistently\n\nApply established data contracts and context contracts for AI inputs (schemas, metadata requirements, freshness, citation expectations)\n\nEnsure datasets and indexes are documented and reusable\n\nOperational excellence\nSupport reliability and performance across assigned workstreams: monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident response\n\nContribute to cost and latency optimization across warehouse/lakehouseand vector infrastructure\n\nAI safety and compliance\nApply security-by-design patterns: RBAC/ABAC, PII redaction, retention controls, and audit logging\n\nFollow established guardrails for AI access to enterprise knowledge in coordination with Security/Legal/Compliance\n\nTravel Expectations\nAbility to travel as needed up to 4 times per year.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nBA or BS required, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technology-based discipline\n\n3-6 years in data engineering or data platform roles with strong hands-on delivery\n\nStrong SQL and Python (or Scala/Java); solid production engineering habits\n\nExperience designing and operating cloud data pipelines at scale\n\nExperience working with unstructured data processing and search/retrieval concepts\n\nClear communicator who can work effectively across technical and functional teams\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nHands-on experience with vector search and embeddings (pgvector/Pinecone/Weaviate/OpenSearch/Elastic) and retrieval patterns (semantic retrieval, hybrid search, reranking)\n\nExperience supporting LLM applications (RAG, agent tool interfaces, evaluation/observability)\n\nFamiliarity with knowledge graphs/semantic modeling or metrics layers\n\nExperience in regulated environments and data governance programs\n\nExample Success Measures\nMeasurable improvement in AI outcomes: higher retrieval precision/recall, better citation coverage, fewer \"missing context\" failures\n\nReduced latency/cost per retrieval and improved platform reliability (SLO attainment, lower MTTR)\n\nConsistent application of semantic definitions and context contracts across assigned workstreams\n\nDelivery quality: production-ready outputs with minimal rework, well-documented and maintainable\n\nBehavioral Attributes\nEager to learn the domain: Proactively builds familiarity with healthcare processes, terminology, and KPIs - can engage credibly with SMEs and ask the right clarifying questions\n\nCollaborative and stakeholder-aware: Works well with engineers, consultants, and functional partners; communicates progress and flags risks clearly\n\nConsultative problem-solver: Approaches requests with a \"diagnose before prescribe\" mindset - proposes options and works toward durable solutions rather than one-off fixes\n\nHigh ownership and follow-through: Treats reliability, documentation, and operational readiness as part of the work; finishes what they start; holds a high bar for production quality\n\nClear communicator: Can go deep with engineers and explain concepts plainly to non-technical partners; writes solid docs and runbooks\n\nPragmatic builder: Biases toward shipping value in iterations,validatingwith users, and improving based on feedback\n\nComfortable with ambiguity: Adapts quickly in evolving AI/data product environments and turns unclear goals into actionable tasks\n\nIntegrity and stewardship: Handles sensitive data responsibly and respectsestablishedgovernance patterns\n\nThe estimated base salary for this job is $110,000 - $150,000 USD. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $123,200 - $177,000 USD. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. 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