Founding Data Engineer ($145k-$215k + Equity) at Stealth YC company

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Founding Data Engineer

Salary: $145,000 - $215,000 + Equity

Company Description: VC-backed healthtech AI startup

Job Description:
You will own the data foundation for an AI-first medical practice, building pipelines that transform messy healthcare records into clean, actionable data. Working alongside clinicians, you will design the infrastructure that powers real-time medical decisions. This is a high-impact role where your technical architecture directly improves patient care and health outcomes.

Location: San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable:

• Ship code that directly impacts real-world patient health outcomes and clinical diagnostic workflows.
• Join a high-performance founding team led by experienced entrepreneurs with a $100M+ exit.
• Gain massive ownership as a first engineering hire with the path to lead future teams.

What you will do:

• Build ETL pipelines to ingest and normalize FHIR, HL7, and CCDA medical record formats.
• Design and maintain scalable data models on AWS optimized for AI retrieval and processing.
• Extract structured clinical data from unstructured sources like scanned PDFs, XML, and HTML feeds.

The ideal candidate:

• Has 5+ years of experience processing complex healthcare data and document extraction workflows.
• Possesses deep knowledge of healthcare standards including FHIR, HL7, and PII handling requirements.
• Is an AI-native engineer proficient in Python who uses modern LLM tools daily in their development.

Who are Jack & Jill?

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Next steps

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Step 4. Jack will make sure Jill (the AI agent working for the company) considers you for this role.
Step 5. If Jill thinks you're a great fit and her client wants to meet you, they will make the introduction.
Step 6. If not, Jack will find you excellent alternatives. All for free.

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