Senior Data Engineer

About Immunai:

Immunai is an AI-driven platform company focused on improving drug discovery and development by decoding the human immune system.

We combine large-scale single cell immune data, advanced machine learning, and strong engineering to help pharmaceutical and research partners make better, more informed decisions throughout the drug development process.

Our long-term goal is to reduce drug development failure rates and help more effective medicines reach patients. We’re building this platform thoughtfully and collaboratively, bringing together expertise across biology, AI, engineering, and business.

Immunai is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

About the role:

You will specialize in designing and building world class, scalable data architectures, ensuring reliable data flow and integration for groundbreaking biotechnological research. Your expertise in big data tools and pipelines will accelerate our ability to derive actionable insights from complex datasets, driving innovations in improving patients outcome and in delivering life savings treatment solutions.

In this role, you will work closely with data scientists, AI/ML engineers, architect and other cross-functional teams to understand their data needs and requirements. You will also be responsible for ensuring that data is easily accessible and can be used to support data-driven decision making.

Location: Ramat Gan, (Hybrid model)

What will you do?

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that ingest, transform, and load noisy, heterogeneous biological data at scale - from single-cell sequencing, genomic, and clinical sources - across databases, APIs, and flat files
• Enhance our data warehouse system to dynamically support multiple analytics use cases
• Implement and productize complex scientific and computational algorithms as scalable, production-grade pipeline components
• Drive our data infrastructure toward becoming AI-native, enabling AI/ML systems and agents to reliably query, reason over, and act on our data
• Implement data governance policies and procedures to ensure data quality, security, and privacy
• Collaborate with ML and AI scientists and other cross-functional teams to understand their data needs and requirements
• Drive team capability growth by championing an AI-first SDLC, mentoring data engineers on AI-assisted development practices and tooling
• Develop and maintain documentation for data pipelines, processes, and systems

Requirements

We will only consider senior data engineers that have demonstrated strong system design skills combined with an extensive background working with data orchestration, data warehousing and ETL tools.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field (e.g. computer science, data science, engineering, computational biology)
• At least 7 years of experience with programming languages, specifically Python
• Must have at least 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, ideally with experience in multiple data ecosystems
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with database technologies (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
• Familiarity with data storage technologies (e.g. HDFS, NoSQL databases)
• Experience with ETL tools (e.g. Apache Beam, Apache Spark)
• Experience with orchestration tools (e.g. Apache Airflow, Dagster)
• Experience with data warehousing technologies (ideally BigQuery)
• Experience working with large and complex data sets
• Experience working in a cloud environment
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Familiarity with biotech or healthcare data - an advantage

Desired personal traits:

• You want to make an impact on humankind
• You prioritize “We” over “I”
• You enjoy getting things done and striving for excellence
• You collaborate effectively with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures
• You constantly challenge your own assumptions, pushing for continuous improvement
• You have a growth mindset
• You make decisions that favor the company, not yourself or your team
• You are candid, authentic, and transparent

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