Data Engineer

Biohub

Data Engineer designing systems that ingest and transform data for biological AI at Biohub. Building infrastructure for training datasets to enhance AI capabilities in biological research.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeNew York City • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $241,000 - $338,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudRaySpark

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build data pipelines that process genomic and imaging data at petabyte scale
Solve performance and bandwidth challenges with creative engineering
Build agent-based systems for automated dataset curation, quality control, and workflow generation
Create tooling for data cataloging and registration that makes datasets discoverable and accessible
Collaborate with AI Research teams to translate model requirements into data specifications, and with our scientists to integrate public and internal data into large-scale ai-ready datasets
Improve pipeline reliability and observability, working toward 99%+ success rates without manual intervention

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years experience building reliable, operable data systems at scale (100s terabytes to petabytes)
Strong software engineering fundamentals
Experience deploying distributed computing frameworks like Databricks, Spark, or Ray for large-scale data processing
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and HPC environments
Comfort with ambiguity; ability to make progress when requirements are evolving
Interest in AI-native development practices and tooling
Nice to have: Background in computational biology, bioinformatics, or life sciences and experience with genomics datasets and formats (FASTQ, BAM, VCF) or imaging formats (OME-Zarr, HDF5)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice.
Funding for select family-forming benefits.
Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving

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Hard Skills & Tools

data pipelinesgenomic data processingimaging data processingdistributed computing frameworksDatabricksSparkRaycloud infrastructureHPC environmentsAI-native development

Soft Skills

problem solvingcreativitycollaborationadaptabilitycommunication