Member of Technical Staff, Data Engineering

Cognita Imaging • Palo Alto, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Member of Technical Staff in Data Engineering, you will own the systems and workflows that transform Cognita’s raw radiology data into high-quality datasets used to train, evaluate, and improve production AI models.

Requirements

• Strong experience building data pipelines or infrastructure for ML systems.
• Experience handling large, messy, real-world datasets.
• Ability to reason deeply about data quality, structure, and failure cases.
• Comfort working in systems where requirements evolve as models improve.
• Strong ownership mindset and attention to detail.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with medical imaging, healthcare data, or regulated datasets.
• Familiarity with ML training workflows and large-scale model development.
• Experience incorporating human-in-the-loop feedback into data systems.
• Experience operating data pipelines in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate pipelines that process large volumes of radiology data, including imaging studies, reports, and longitudinal priors.
• Design data formats and representations that work efficiently for model training and evaluation.
• Run large-scale data cleaning and normalization workflows to prepare datasets for training.
• Ensure data is well-organized, versioned, and reproducible across training runs.
• Partner closely with ML training engineers to enable efficient training workflows.
• Debug data issues that surface during training, evaluation, or deployment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed