About the Role
Ambience runs on data to understand clinician adoption, time savings, and documentation quality. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will build and manage pipelines for ingesting clinical and operational data, modeling it into governed metrics, and providing self-service analytics. You will collaborate cross-functionally to transform raw data into actionable insights for the company and its customers, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of critical platform metrics.
Responsibilities
- Build and run pipelines to ingest, validate, and transform clinical and operational data at scale.
- Ensure accuracy, reproducibility, and defensibility of metrics powering the AI story.
- Partner with engineering, clinical, and product teams to design dashboards and analytics.
- Apply best practices for warehousing, orchestration, governance, and RBAC.
- Build file-based ingestion pipelines for onboarding external data sources.
- Develop automated validation, triggering, and error-handling mechanisms for real-time data availability.
- Implement data validation frameworks using Python or TypeScript.
- Design transformation layers (SQL, dbt) to standardize and cleanse raw data.
- Build and maintain governed metrics and analytical schemas in SQL.
- Enable tiered self-service analytics for all employees.
Requirements
- 5+ years in a production Data Engineering role.
- Hands-on Snowflake experience (data modeling, performance tuning, warehouse administration).
- Strong SQL skills.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines, data lakes, or warehouses in modern cloud environments.
- Solid grasp of data validation, schema design, and scalable architecture.
- Clear communicator capable of bridging technical and non-technical teams.
- Ability to gather requirements and present to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Mission-driven.
- Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Takes ownership of deliverables.
- Experience owning a production pipeline end-to-end.
- Comfortable making decisions without fully specified tickets.
Skills
- Snowflake
- SQL
- Python
- ETL/ELT
- Data Lakes
- Data Warehousing
- Data Validation
- Schema Design
- Scalable Architecture
- dbt
- Airflow
- Dagster
- Looker
- Tableau
- Mode
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000–$250,000 per year
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 3% of base salary
- Full equipment provisioning
- Parental leave
- Annual company-wide off-sites
- Team off-sites
- Regular team lunches and all-hands gatherings
- Flexible time off with no annual cap
- Company-wide holidays
- Annual holiday shutdown from December 24–January 1
About the Company
- Ambience is building an AI intelligence platform to restore humanity to healthcare and drive ROI for health systems.
- Their technology helps providers focus on patient care by reducing administrative burdens.
- Ambience delivers real-time coding-aware documentation and clinical workflow support.
- Teams operate with extreme ownership, valuing candor, positivity, and deep thought.
- Ranked #1 for Improving the Clinician Experience by KLAS Research.
- Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Next Big Things in Tech.
- Named one of the best AI companies in healthcare by Inc.
- Selected as a LinkedIn Top Startup in 2024 and 2025.
- Backed by Oak HC/FT, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI Startup Fund, and Kleiner Perkins.
Equal Opportunity
- Ambience Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.
- We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
- Ambience is committed to supporting every candidate’s ability to fully participate in our hiring process.
- If you need any accommodations during your application or interviews, please reach out to our Recruiting team at accommodations@ambiencehealthcare.com.
- We’ll handle your request confidentially and work with you to ensure an accessible and equitable experience for all candidates.
