Founding Engineer; Data​/AI - Flyway Health

Location
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Remote (in-person, NY)

Type: Full-time

We’re an early-stage, venture-backed healthtech company using AI Agents to drive real-world impact in the life sciences. Our clients include leading pharmaceutical companies who trust us to deliver insights from complex datasets.

We’re looking for a highly versatile engineer who can operate at the intersection of AI, data engineering, and software development. You’ll work on advancing our AI systems, scaling data workflows, and ensuring our platform continues to deliver exceptional performance for enterprise clients.

• Build and optimize AI-driven data pipelines

• Enhance agentic system architecture and monitoring

• Integrate new data sources and deploy new AI agent capabilities

• Conduct technical analysis to improve performance and scalability

• A desire to improve

• Exceptional Python skills

• Experience building applications with LLMs

• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with ORM tools (e.g., SQL Alchemy)

• Solid understanding of relational databases & cloud data warehouses

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to design scalable technical solutions

• Able to work independently

• Experience in life sciences, healthcare analytics, biomedical research, or enterprise AI software

• Dev Ops skills (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure)

• Experience with distributed systems

• Competitive salary based on experience

• Flexible, remote-first work environment

• Early hire at a fast-growing, VC-backed company

• Fundamentally change how fast therapies can reach patients

• Work directly with the founding team

• Exposure to high-value enterprise challenges