fathom is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

Join Fathom, a venture-backed company on a mission to use AI to understand and structure the world’s medical data. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Data) based remotely in the USA to work on data products that drive the core of our business.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in a company/production setting
• Knowledge of algorithms, data structures and systems design
• Experience building data pipelines from disparate sources
• Hands-on experience building and scaling up compute clusters
• A solid understanding of databases and large-scale data processing frameworks like Hadoop or Spark and the ability to evaluate which tools to use on the job
• A unique combination of creative and analytical skills apt of designing a system capable of pulling together, training, and testing dozens of data sources under a unified ontology
• Bachelor's degree majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a STEM major or similar

Responsibilities

• Developing data infrastructure to ingest, sanitize and normalize a broad range of medical data
• Building performant and expressive interfaces to the data
• Creating infrastructure to help us not only scale up data ingest, but large-scale cloud-based machine learning

Preferred Qualifications

• Know-how of developing systems to do or support machine learning, including experience working with NLP toolkits like Stanford CoreNLP, OpenNLP, and/or Python’s NLTK
• Expertise with wrangling healthcare data and/or HIPAA
• Experience with managing large-scale data labelling and acquisition, through tools such as through Amazon Turk or DeepDive

Benefits

• PTO and Uncapped Sick Days
• Medical/Dental/Vision Coverage
• 401k Matching
• $1,500 USD Home Office Budget
• Virtual and Local Office (San Francisco, New York City and Toronto) Team Building Events
• Annual Company Off-site