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Director, Product Data Engineering

Hybrid - Palo Alto, CA | Remote - US

Transform healthcare with us.

At Qualified Health, we're redefining what's possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Our infrastructure provides the guardrails for safe AI governance, healthcare-specific agent creation, and real-time algorithm monitoring — working alongside leading health systems to drive real change.

This is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to build the future of AI in healthcare, solve complex challenges, and make a lasting impact on patient care. If you're ambitious, innovative, and ready to move fast, we'd love to have you on board.

Join us in shaping the future of healthcare.

Job Summary:

The Director of Product Data Engineering is one of the most important leadership hires we'll make this year. You'll build and lead the team responsible for every reusable data product artifact at Qualified Health — transformation notebooks, validation pipelines, data specifications, IaC modules, and the initial agentic LLM call development that sits at the heart of our clinical AI workflows.

Today, this work is being done ad-hoc by our integration team alongside customer deployments. You're going to change that. You'll create a dedicated product engineering function that builds tested, documented, reusable artifacts — the kind that can be deployed to a new health system partner in days instead of weeks. You own the backlog, you set the technical standards, and you drive the architecture decisions that determine how our data products scale.

This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape how Qualified Health builds its core data product layer. You'll work across three product families — revenue cycle, care gap optimization, and quality registry abstraction — each with multiple active agentic workflows. The right person in this role will dramatically increase the throughput of our integration teams by eliminating per-partner reinvention and replacing it with a library of production-grade, reusable components.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build and lead a team of 4-5 data engineers focused on reusable product artifacts
  • Own the product data engineering backlog in partnership with product management
  • Define and enforce technical standards for notebooks, pipelines, QC modules, and documentation
  • Drive the development of reusable data provisioning modules (IaC) and pipeline tooling
  • Lead the build-out of data transformation and validation notebooks for agentic workflows
  • Oversee initial agentic LLM call development within data pipelines — including prompt engineering, model serving patterns, and evaluation frameworks
  • Own data spec documentation and ensure specs are maintained as products evolve
  • Collaborate closely with Client Integration Directors to ensure product artifacts deploy cleanly into customer environments
  • Develop team members technically and professionally; create a high-output engineering culture

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or related technical field
  • 8+ years in data engineering, with 3+ years in a technical leadership role
  • Deep Databricks/Spark expertise at the architecture level — performance tuning, cluster management, Delta Lake design patterns
  • Experience building reusable data frameworks, tooling, or platforms
  • Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain strong engineers
  • Ability to travel for team onsites, leadership meetings or partner-facing architecture discussions 5-10% of the time

Preferred Skills:

  • Exposure to ML/LLM pipeline development — model serving, prompt engineering in production, evaluation frameworks
  • Healthcare data experience (Epic Clarity, clinical data models, FHIR)
  • IaC experience (Terraform, Bicep)
  • Background building product-oriented data platforms (not just ETL/ELT pipelines)
  • Prior experience at a growth-stage startup where you built a team from scratch
  • Architectural Vision: Ability to see across multiple product families and design data foundations that serve all of them — not one-off solutions for each
  • Product Engineering Instincts: You think about your output as a product: versioned, tested, documented, and designed for the consumer (in this case, the integration team deploying it to partners)
  • Technical Depth + Leadership Range: You're comfortable operating at both the architecture whiteboard and the code review level — and you know when to toggle between them
  • Influence Without Authority: You'll need to drive adoption of your team's artifacts across integration pods that have their own priorities and habits
  • Builder Mentality: You're energized by creating something from nothing — building a team, establishing processes, and shipping the first version of things that don't exist yet

Technical Environment:

Our data infrastructure is built on modern cloud technologies including:

  • Azure Databricks + Data Factory (plus Fabric and Snowflake integrations)
  • PySpark for distributed data processing
  • GitHub Actions + Terraform for CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
  • Python with type-safe patterns and modern frameworks
  • Healthcare data formats including FHIR, Epic Clarity, and other EHR schemas

 

Why Join Qualified Health?

This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing company and a world-class team, that is poised to change the healthcare industry. We are a passionate, mission-driven team that is building a category-defining product. We are backed by premier investors and are looking for founding team members who are excited to do the best work of their careers.

Our employees are integral to achieving our goals so we are proud to offer competitive salaries with equity packages, robust medical/dental/vision insurance, flexible working hours, hybrid work options and an inclusive environment that fosters creativity and innovation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Qualified Health is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential to our success, and we are committed to building a team that reflects the world we live in. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

Pay & Benefits: The pay range for this role is between $195,000 and $240,000, and will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits.

Join our mission to revolutionize healthcare with AI. To apply, please send your resume through the application below.

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