About Us

Ascertain is a New York-based venture studio dedicated to building innovative products that tackle the most pressing challenges in healthcare. As a joint venture between Northwell Health, New York State’s largest healthcare provider, and Aegis Ventures, a cutting-edge healthcare investor with a portfolio backed by leading investors, we are uniquely positioned at the intersection of healthcare delivery, innovation, and investment.

Our first-of-its-kind product creation platform brings together top-notch technical, engineering, data, and business resources to rapidly create and validate solutions aimed at enhancing healthcare quality, equity, and cost efficiency. With a strong commitment to addressing health disparities, our mission is to revolutionize the healthcare sector.

At Ascertain, we strive to build products and companies with the potential for significant impact. Our initial and near-term focus is on leveraging groundbreaking advancements in generative AI and large language models to transform health administration and operations. With our partners, our goal is to establish companies that utilize technology to enhance healthcare quality, access, and cost by promoting seamless continuity of care, patient empowerment, and more efficient backend provider operations.

About the Role

Ascertain is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to support us in building world-changing products with a one-of-a-kind collection of clinical, non-clinical, and operational data to transform care and improve outcomes through cutting-edge AI/ML-enabled applications. Ascertain is a passionate, interdisciplinary team of healthtech innovators united by its mission to turn these applications into companies that disrupt and reconfigure healthcare. The Ascertain team is closely collaborating with Northwell Health, one of the largest health systems in the US, to create a robust company-creation platform that facilitates ideation, model training, and ML deployment. The Senior Data Engineer will work closely with our AI and engineering teams to design and implement secure, robust cloud infrastructure and data operations for healthcare products. The role will be hybrid in New York at the Ascertain headquarters and onsite with our partners at Northwell a few days each week.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement best practices for data governance and data pipeline architecture that supports data labeling and foundation model fine tuning.
• Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to understand their data needs and develop solutions that support their objectives.
• Build the infrastructure required for extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data from a wide variety of data sources.
• Advising the engineering and management on the optimal strategy for cloud architecture and design.
• Support the research team to build repeatable data pipelines for their model development.
• Employ best practices to ensure that production deployments are secure, stable, well-monitored, and easy to troubleshoot.
• Support the engineering teams to put effective development tooling in place by establishing servers and managing continuous deployment pipelines ensuring CI/CD.
• Help to define and enforce policies for the usage of and access to cloud environments.
• Predict, monitor, and control cloud spend across the group of companies.
• Communicate complex technical concepts and recommendations to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.

What You’ll Gain

• A highly competitive compensation package, including top-tier benefits and equity in the startups that you help launch and scale.
• An unparalleled, hands-on experience in deep tech startup operations, highlighted by the chance to bring new ventures to life across the broad spectrum of healthcare technology.
• An opportunity to help lead a rapidly growing, mission-driven company with the potential to save lives and transform how clinical care is delivered.
• A chance to work with a highly talented, close-knit team who can act as a support network and sounding board throughout your entrepreneurial journey.
• Top-tier health, vision, wellness, commuter, and dental benefits.
• Exciting opportunity for career development as our team scales.

What You Have

• At least five years of data engineering experience.
• Experience using Databricks or a similar platform to architect data lakehouses.
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages (the team uses Python).
• Experience building and optimizing ’big data’ data pipelines, architectures, and data sets.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
• Working knowledge of message queuing and stream processing.
• Experience building cloud services and the use of Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Working knowledge of data science and machine learning.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.

Additional Details

• For this role, the base salary range is $170,000 - $200,000 with an eligible cash bonus. A salary offer will be determined by several factors including experience, skill level, education, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.
• Total compensation also includes a stock option grant and a competitive benefits package.
• This role is hybrid in our NYC Office and open to candidates in the US.  We will offer a relocation package.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Ascertain is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer — we recruit, train, compensate and promote our team members based on qualifications. We encourage you to apply regardless of your race, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.