AI Data Engineer - Scientific Data Platforms; Remote

Position: AI Data Engineer - Scientific Data Platforms (Remote)
** AI Data Engineer - Scientific Data Platforms (Remote)*
* Science & Research

South San Francisco, CA, US

+ Added - 15/06/2026

Pay Rate Low: 37 | Pay Rate High: 45

_Our client is a leading global biotechnology and pharmaceutical organization driven by a mission to innovate, continuously advance science, and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need._

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* Title:

** AI Data Engineer - Scientific Data Platforms

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* Location:

** Remote, Must work PST

** Pay rate:** $37-45/hr (Depends on experience level)

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* Schedule:

** Full-time (40 hours/week)

** Duration:
** 1-year contract, (Plus benefits)

** Position Overview*
* This role addresses a critical need in scaling our AI models for drug discovery by building largely automated, scalable, agent-driven data ingestion and curation pipelines for genomics data. This includes metadata inference, constructing performant query architectures, and transforming high-dimensional datasets (e.g., single-cell omics, clinical trials) into AI-ready training formats.

** Key Responsibilities*
* + Build an agentic data ingestion pipeline and move beyond bespoke steps toward agents that teams can reliably use as a shared, deployed service.

+ Triage and prioritize incoming requests to ingest specific datasets. Clean and organize data, building the first-pass cleaning and organization steps into the agentic flow.

+ Validate cross-modal linkage. Add automated checks that catch when ingested data does not connect correctly and flag low-quality or mismatched records.

+ Version every dataset, retaining and making prior versions addressable. Preserve raw data and provenance, ensuring agent workflows log validation and transformation steps so lineage is fully traceable.

+ Partner with AI, software engineering, and computational biology groups to co-define data standards and conventions.

** Qualifications & Requirements*
* + Demonstrated experience building multi-agent workflows or LLM workflows using tools/frameworks such as Lang Graph or Llama Index, including tool/function calling and asynchronous task execution.

+ Strong Python skills for data manipulation, working with APIs and databases, and handling heterogeneous data formats.

+ Familiarity with dataset versioning approaches (e.g., DVC, lakeFS, or equivalent).

+ Comfortable with or showing a strong willingness to learn common omics data formats like Ann Data, H5AD, and TileDB.

+ No deep bioinformatics expertise required; just a basic conceptual understanding of different modalities (e.g., RNA-seq vs. scRNA-seq vs. WES; genomics vs. transcriptomics vs. proteomics vs. metabolomics).

+ Comfortable writing unit and functional tests to ensure data processing workflows are reliable and reproducible.

+ Degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

+ Must be Authorized to work in the United States without Sponsorship.

** Nice to Have*
* + Experience deploying agent workflows as a shared service (e.g., FastAPI or MCP endpoints).

+ Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and containerization (Docker).

+ Familiarity with scientific workflow managers such as Nextflow or Snakemake.

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