About the role

Role Overview

Octave is hiring a Sr. Data Engineer to evolve its modern data stack and help build the foundation of an emerging AI/ML platform. You’ll work at the intersection of data engineering, platform architecture, and machine learning enablement, partnering with data scientists, analysts, and product managers to deliver reliable pipelines, scalable analytics, and production-ready ML systems.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable data ingestion, transformation, and storage systems with a focus on testing and observability.
Create frameworks, tooling, and automation to safely increase development velocity.
Develop end-to-end AI/ML workflows, including:
- source ingestion and data preparation
- training and tuning
- experimentation and productionization
- integration with downstream systems (e.g., EHR modules, microservices, dashboards)
Support iterative model development and production operations with observability around accuracy, drift, bias, fairness, and reproducibility.
Drive continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and mentoring of peer engineers.
Use AI tools in daily work to improve efficiency, quality, and decision-making.

Required Skills / Qualifications

Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
Familiarity with modern data engineering frameworks, infrastructure, and tooling.
DataOps best practices: monitoring, pipeline automation, and CI/CD.
Knowledge of modern compute/ML frameworks/libraries: Spark, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn.
Ability to build production APIs/services, including MCP servers exposing internal data/services to LLMs.
Collaboration and dependability; strong learning mindset.
Comfort using AI tools day-to-day and continuously improving how work gets done.

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in CS, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or related field.
5+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or ML engineering.

Preferred

Experience in healthcare / behavioral health, EHR systems, or regulated industries.
Experience with AWS/GCP, dbt, Airflow, Airbyte, Redshift/BigQuery.

About Octave

Octave is a modern behavioral health practice offering evidence-based individual, couples, and family therapy through in-person and virtual clinics across multiple states. The company builds partnerships with payers to improve affordability through insurance, while advancing provider support and care effectiveness with an emphasis on equity and accessibility.

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