# Sr. Forward Deployed Data Engineer

POSITION SUMMARY: Natera is a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, serving patients across oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our Data & AI organization builds the enterprise data platform and AI systems that turn clinical, genomic, and operational data into products that improve patient care and accelerate the business. We are looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer to work directly with internal business stakeholders and domain teams to design, build, and deploy high-impact analytics and AI solutions. Reporting directly to the Data & AI Engineering Tech Lead, you will act as the technical point-of-contact and primary builder for stakeholder initiatives, translating business needs into production-ready data and AI products. This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role where you will write production code, develop semantic layers, and implement agentic workflows and LLM pipelines. As a forward deployed engineer, you are AI-native by design-using AI coding harnesses and agentic tooling to accelerate development, testing, and documentation. You will partner closely with the Tech Lead to adopt foundational architecture patterns while rapidly deliverin

- **Id**: 4198151
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/natera-sr-forward-deployed-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T20:45:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T21:09:23Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10142
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Continuous learning
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Diagnostic Tests & IVD, Genomics & Genetic Testing, Precision Medicine

## Company

- **Id**: 3078
- **Name**: Natera
- **Domain**: natera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/natera>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 49
- **Ghost share**: 0.061
- **Stale share**: 0.714
- **Repost share**: 0.122
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 37
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 125000
- **Max**: 156300
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 156300

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **Cortex** — Optional: no
- **Dagster** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **HIPAA** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Prefect** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Looker** — Optional: yes
- **Power BI** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **Tableau** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T21:09:23Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 74 · green card filings: 31; Filings 12m: 74

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 37
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T23:35:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 156300
- **Is top pay**: yes

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