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Staff Data Engineer
KariusRedwood City, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Feb 2025
About the role
About KariusKarius is a venture-backed life science startup that is transforming the way pathogens and other microbes are observed throughout the body. By unlocking the information present in microbial cell-free DNA, we're helping doctors quickly solve their most challenging cases, providing industry partners with access to 1000’s of biomarkers to accelerate clinical trials, discovering new microbes, and reducing patient suffering worldwide.
Position SummaryWe are seeking a seasoned Staff data engineer to drive data platform initiatives across the data value chain at Karius. We develop and operate AI-driven data analytics pipelines to deliver life-saving results in the highly complex infectious disease landscape. In this role, you will have the opportunity to develop and optimize the data platform to enable our users to extract insights from large amounts of commercial, operational, genomic, and clinical data, ultimately providing actionable insights that serve the business and patients. You will be able to incorporate the next generation of AI technologies and tools (e.g. Generative AI) into the Karius data platform to significantly increase delivered value to internal stakeholders and our customers.
Why Should You Join Us?Karius aims to conquer infectious diseases through innovations around genomic sequencing and machine learning. The company’s platform is already delivering unprecedented insights into the microbial landscape, providing clinicians with a comprehensive test capable of identifying more than a thousand pathogens directly from blood, and helping industry accelerate the development of therapeutic solutions. The Karius test we provide today is one of the most advanced solutions available to physicians who aim to deliver better care to many otherwise ineffectively treated patients. Our test is the result of some incredible work done by our scientists, statisticians, engineers, and physicians, all driven by the same mission. You, as part of the Karius team, will be able to see how directly your work has a life-changing impact on people, and at scale.
Reports to: Sr. Manager, Analytical Systems & Data Insights*This position is not open to agency support at this time. Agencies, please contact recruiting@kariusdx.com and not the hiring manager for inquiries.
Location: Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)
Primary Responsibilities• Data Platform Development: Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain production-grade platforms and tooling that add value across the data lifecycle (ingest, transform, serve) for various use cases such as reporting, data analytics, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Examples of projects you will own and drive: - Data Architecture: Ensure centralized, standardized, and secure data access across business domains. - Data Pipelines and Reporting: Combine internal (including PHI) and external data sources via ETL/ELT tooling to calculate operational and commercial KPIs for data analysis and reporting use-cases, catalyzing insight generation. - ML/AI Data Platform Capabilities: Provide support for computational teams to drive value from clinical and genomic data assets through the ML lifecycle and data science tooling Generative. - Generative AI Integrations: Implement generative AI solutions to increase the value and usability of Karius data assets across use-cases such as data pipelining, data discovery, knowledgebase search, and conversational analytics.• Project Management: Proactively interface with cross-functional technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify unmet needs, ensure alignment with data initiatives (scope, timelines, deliverables), and communicate results and outcomes.• Collaboration: Coordinate with the engineering and IT domains to understand, interface with, and extend production data and software systems using engineering best practices.• Data Governance: Inform, implement, and follow data governance best practices and policies in conjunction with the Security and Compliance team to meet regulatory and legal requirements.• Continuous Improvement: Foster a growth mindset and self-starter attitude, continually seeking opportunities for process and system improvements with a focus on quality, practicality, and delivered value
*Note that job duties and responsibilities may evolve based on company needs and technological advancements.
What’s Fun About the Job?Karius is operating at the edge of what is now known to be possible in infectious disease diagnostics. With that, comes a wave of
Position SummaryWe are seeking a seasoned Staff data engineer to drive data platform initiatives across the data value chain at Karius. We develop and operate AI-driven data analytics pipelines to deliver life-saving results in the highly complex infectious disease landscape. In this role, you will have the opportunity to develop and optimize the data platform to enable our users to extract insights from large amounts of commercial, operational, genomic, and clinical data, ultimately providing actionable insights that serve the business and patients. You will be able to incorporate the next generation of AI technologies and tools (e.g. Generative AI) into the Karius data platform to significantly increase delivered value to internal stakeholders and our customers.
Why Should You Join Us?Karius aims to conquer infectious diseases through innovations around genomic sequencing and machine learning. The company’s platform is already delivering unprecedented insights into the microbial landscape, providing clinicians with a comprehensive test capable of identifying more than a thousand pathogens directly from blood, and helping industry accelerate the development of therapeutic solutions. The Karius test we provide today is one of the most advanced solutions available to physicians who aim to deliver better care to many otherwise ineffectively treated patients. Our test is the result of some incredible work done by our scientists, statisticians, engineers, and physicians, all driven by the same mission. You, as part of the Karius team, will be able to see how directly your work has a life-changing impact on people, and at scale.
Reports to: Sr. Manager, Analytical Systems & Data Insights*This position is not open to agency support at this time. Agencies, please contact recruiting@kariusdx.com and not the hiring manager for inquiries.
Location: Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)
Primary Responsibilities• Data Platform Development: Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain production-grade platforms and tooling that add value across the data lifecycle (ingest, transform, serve) for various use cases such as reporting, data analytics, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Examples of projects you will own and drive: - Data Architecture: Ensure centralized, standardized, and secure data access across business domains. - Data Pipelines and Reporting: Combine internal (including PHI) and external data sources via ETL/ELT tooling to calculate operational and commercial KPIs for data analysis and reporting use-cases, catalyzing insight generation. - ML/AI Data Platform Capabilities: Provide support for computational teams to drive value from clinical and genomic data assets through the ML lifecycle and data science tooling Generative. - Generative AI Integrations: Implement generative AI solutions to increase the value and usability of Karius data assets across use-cases such as data pipelining, data discovery, knowledgebase search, and conversational analytics.• Project Management: Proactively interface with cross-functional technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify unmet needs, ensure alignment with data initiatives (scope, timelines, deliverables), and communicate results and outcomes.• Collaboration: Coordinate with the engineering and IT domains to understand, interface with, and extend production data and software systems using engineering best practices.• Data Governance: Inform, implement, and follow data governance best practices and policies in conjunction with the Security and Compliance team to meet regulatory and legal requirements.• Continuous Improvement: Foster a growth mindset and self-starter attitude, continually seeking opportunities for process and system improvements with a focus on quality, practicality, and delivered value
*Note that job duties and responsibilities may evolve based on company needs and technological advancements.
What’s Fun About the Job?Karius is operating at the edge of what is now known to be possible in infectious disease diagnostics. With that, comes a wave of
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