Data Engineer - AI, Agents, & Context - Clinical (Sr. Associate) (AI)

Location: Remote role associated with Chicago, United States; travel may be required up to four times per year.

Salary: $110,000–$150,000 USD base annually; total estimated compensation including annual incentive compensation: $123,200–$177,000 USD.

Company

hirify.global helps healthcare organizations improve performance, clinical outcomes, innovation, and consumer and stakeholder engagement.

What you will do

• Build end-to-end AI context pipelines covering ingestion, parsing, chunking, enrichment, embeddings, vector indexing, and retrieval.
• Develop incremental refresh, backfill, re-embedding, deduplication, and data lineage patterns for unstructured sources.
• Implement semantic layers, data contracts, and context contracts that support BI and agent reasoning.
• Improve retrieval quality through query strategies, hybrid search, metadata filtering, and related retrieval patterns.
• Support monitoring, alerting, runbooks, incident response, and cost and latency optimization across data and vector infrastructure.
• Apply security and compliance controls including RBAC/ABAC, PII redaction, retention controls, audit logging, and AI access guardrails.

Requirements

• BA or BS required, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technology-based discipline.
• 3–6 years of experience in data engineering or data platform roles with strong hands-on delivery.
• Strong SQL and Python, or Scala/Java, with solid production engineering practices.
• Experience designing and operating cloud data pipelines at scale.
• Experience with unstructured data processing and search or retrieval concepts.
• Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate across technical and functional teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with vector search, embeddings, pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, or Elastic.
• Experience with semantic retrieval, hybrid search, reranking, RAG, agent tool interfaces, or LLM evaluation and observability.
• Familiarity with knowledge graphs, semantic modeling, metrics layers, regulated environments, or data governance programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Wellness programs and participation in benefit plans.
• Annual incentive compensation program based on performance.
• Work includes collaboration with engineers, consultants, functional partners, and healthcare subject-matter experts.