Data Engineer - Healthcare
PerceptaNew York, New York, United States
Posted November 21, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Percepta is a direct partnership with General Catalyst, a global transformation and investment company, with a mission to transform critical institutions with applied AI.
Job Description
Percepta is hiring a Data Engineer to partner with product and AI engineering teams to lead AI transformations of large health systems & healthcare providers. The role involves designing, building, and operationalizing data systems that power AI applications, and influencing technical strategy for deploying AI across complex health system environments.
Requirements
- Strong technical foundations
- Hands-on experience building pipelines on Databricks or similar cloud data platforms
- SQL and Python proficiency
- Experience with streaming tools (Kafka or comparable)
- Experience with both relational databases (Postgres, MySQL) and NoSQL/columnar stores (MongoDB, Dynamo, etc.)
- Solid understanding of ETL and ELT patterns, orchestration, CI/CD for data, and schema design
- Healthcare data experience
- Familiarity with FHIR, HL7, Epic data structures, payer and claims datasets
- Comfort working with DICOM metadata, scheduling/ADT feeds, SDOH sources, and operational hospital datasets
- AI and ML intuition
- Understanding of what ML systems need: features, embeddings, context windows, and retrieval patterns
- Experience structuring data for RAG, retrieval workflows, or agent-style systems
- Experience partnering with ML engineers or supporting ML-adjacent pipelines
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Equity
- Flexible PTO
- Comprehensive health insurance
- 401(k) matching