Software Engineer, Data

Imagine if you had the skills, knowledge, and teammates to both understand the root of the world’s most pressing problems and build the technologies and companies best positioned to solve them. RA Capital has done exactly that for more than two decades, backing bold ideas in medicines to further human health and now expanding into Planetary Health to improve how efficiently we utilize the world’s precious resources.

RA Capital is among the leading providers of capital and services to the most promising innovators in the world. We invest flexibly—seed to IPO and beyond, anywhere in the world—with $10 B+ under management and a culture that prizes curiosity, rigor, and collaborative debate. We are investors who not only fund companies but get elbow deep in building them. From helping them recruit talent to helping them recruit patients for their studies to helping match them to strategic partners and even going to Washington to win reforms, RA Capital’s large team has people with nearly every relevant expertise one might need to turn an idea into a cure that actually helps people.

If you live for first-principles problem-solving with great colleagues, thrive on complexity, and want to do meaningful work that ripples across industries and ecosystems, you’ll feel at home at RA Capital. Here, questions are welcomed, ideas are tested, and victories are shared. Even our lawyers are creative and engaging. And don’t get us started on our compliance team’s wicked sense of humor;

nothing about what we do is boring.

Are you ready to bring your creativity, discipline and collaborative spirit to help us invent the future? Join us and you’ll collaborate daily with investors, founders, physicians, biologists, engineers, economists, and reform advocates who think in systems and act with urgency.

Join us to invent a happier, healthier, more productive future - and have fun doing it.

Software Engineer, Data/AI – Healthcare Data & AI

RA Capital’s Data Engineering team builds the enterprise data platform that powers research, investment, and operational workflows across the firm. Beyond traditional data pipelines, we are actively developing AI-native data access patterns that enable users to interact with complex healthcare datasets through LLM-powered, governed, and auditable interfaces.

Our work sits at the intersection of healthcare data, large-scale data engineering, and applied AI, with a strong emphasis on reliability, compliance, and production readiness.

We are seeking an early-career software engineer to help build and operate AI-enabled data platforms and intelligent data workflows for healthcare data.

This role goes beyond traditional ETL. You will build healthcare data pipelines as well as AI-driven workflows and data applications that connect large language models with enterprise data and tools. This includes developing governed data access layers where LLMs translate user intent into structured queries and building agentic workflows that retrieve information, invoke tools, orchestrate multi-step tasks, and support self-service analytics, discovery, and decision-making.

• Design and maintain scalable, production-grade data pipelines for healthcare datasets, including claims and provider data.
• Build and optimize data models to support analytical and AI-driven workloads.
• Develop high-quality Python and SQL code for data standardization, reconciliation, validation, and application workflows.
• Build AI-powered data applications and agentic workflows that connect LLMs with enterprise data and internal tools, retrieve information, execute multi-step tasks, and automate data and research processes with appropriate guardrails.
• Build and improve AI-native data access…