Senior Staff Data Engineer
Biohub
- New York, New York, United States · Redwood City, California, United States
- Hybrid
- $270,000 - $338,000 a year
- Posted Aug 15, 2026
Job description
About the role
As a Senior Staff Data Engineer on the Data Engineering team, you will design and build large‑scale data pipelines that ingest and transform heterogeneous biological data into AI‑ready datasets, integrate public and proprietary data, and deliver training data for cutting‑edge biological AI research, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and scientific correctness.
About the company
Biohub is a 501(c)(3) biomedical research organization that combines frontier AI models, massive compute, and experimental biology to accelerate scientific discovery and ultimately cure disease, providing AI‑powered tools to scientists worldwide.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building reliable, operable data systems at petabyte scale (12+ years for Senior Staff level)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Experience deploying distributed computing frameworks such as Databricks, Spark, or Ray for large‑scale data processing
- Experience building and deploying large‑scale data platform solutions using infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Terraform or CDK
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and on‑prem infrastructure
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to make progress as requirements evolve
- Interest in AI‑native development practices and tooling
- Nice to have: background in computational biology, bioinformatics, or life sciences and experience with genomics formats (FASTQ, BAM, VCF) or imaging formats (OME‑Zarr, HDF5)