Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Software/Data Engineer

Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or a bachelor's degree with 3-5 years of experience
  • Knowledge of Software Design and Development Life-cycle
  • Strong proficiency in Python and related frameworks
  • Proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and SQL
  • Experience with AI/ML model training, deployment, and evaluation
  • Experience in data engineering and ETL/ELT processes
  • Familiarity with version control software like git
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Good interpersonal skills for collaborative teamwork
  • Experience in security-sensitive, regulated enterprise environments

Responsibilities

  • Develop software for harmonizing medical and health data
  • Create web-based applications
  • Model and simulate data for various projects
  • Implement data streaming applications
  • Collaborate with team members to enhance project outcomes
  • Maintain and improve existing software systems
  • Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
  • MIT-funded pension
  • Matching 401K
  • Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)
  • Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs
  • Mentorship programs
  • A range of work-life balance options
  • Additional voluntary benefits, discounts, and perks
Full Job Description
The Bioanalytics Systems & Technologies Group focuses on driving analytic and Al/ML solutions that leverage the vast and rapidly expanding biological datasets to address national security needs. The Group's efforts include developing software architectures and systems, bioinformatics tools, and AI algorithms to further the nation's efforts in biomedical, health, chemical and biological defense, biosecurity, public and global health and warfighter performance.

Job Description

The Bioanalytics Systems and Technologies Group is in search of an innovative and highly motivated software engineer to support several projects within our group. Project tasks include development of software to support harmonization of medical and health data, web-based app development, modeling and simulation, and data streaming applications.

Requirements

  • Master's degree in Computer Science or related discipline. In lieu of a master's degree, a bachelor's degree with 3 to 5 years of experience
  • Software Design and Development Life-cycle knowledge
  • Strong proficiency in Python and related frameworks
  • Proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and SQL
  • Experience with training, deploying, and/or evaluating AI / ML or data science models
  • Experience with data engineering, defining ETL / ELT processes, and using workflow orchestrators
  • Experience using version control software, such as git, in a team setting
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Good interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with a team
  • Experience working with building and maintaining applications in security-sensitive, regulated enterprise settings


Desired Requirements

  • Experience with Big Data cloud platforms like Databricks a plus
  • Experience with biological and medical data a plus
  • Experience with data harmonization and medical data standards like OMOP, FHIR, and HL7 a plus
  • Experience with using AWS cloud services for AI and Data Engineering a plus
  • Experience building software integrations with AI / ML / LLM models and libraries a plus
  • Experience with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) using various source document formats a plus


Recent Graduate Hiring Range: $116,400 - $140,000
Experienced Hiring Range: $116,400 - $182,200

Disclaimer: MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides a typical hiring range as a good faith estimate of what we reasonably expect to offer for this position at the time of posting. The final salary offered to a selected candidate will depend on various factors, including-but not limited to-the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, skills and education/training, internal equity considerations and applicable legal requirements. This range reflects base salary only and does not include additional forms of compensation or benefits.

At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, our exceptional career opportunities include many outstanding benefits to help you stay healthy, feel supported, and enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance. Benefits offered to employees include:

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
  • MIT-funded pension
  • Matching 401K
  • Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)
  • Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs
  • Mentorship programs
  • A range of work-life balance options
  • ... and much more!

Please visit our Benefits page for more information. As an employee of MIT, you can also take advantage of other voluntary benefits, discounts and perks.

Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret level DoD security clearance.

Requisition ID: 43407

About Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU) and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The university is known for its strong emphasis on scientific and technological research and its engineering programs. MIT was founded in 1861 and has a long history of innovation and entrepreneurship. The university has produced numerous Nobel laureates, Rhodes Scholars, and MacArthur Fellows.
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