Who We Are

Tesseract’s mission is to democratize healthcare delivery to everyone on a global scale. We are reinventing medical devices to leverage the health information in the human eye and championing a new era of healthcare by creating portable, affordable, easy to use, connected devices for early disease detection and monitoring. Tesseract is well-funded and recently raised a series B round of $80M.

We are part of 4Catalyzer - a rapidly growing health-tech incubator founded by Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, an award-winning scientist and highly successful serial entrepreneur. Our 4Catalyzer sister companies include Butterfly Network, the first whole-body Ultrasound-on-ChipTM, and Hyperfine, the first FDA-cleared portable MRI. We are fostering a culture of technical excellence and positive teamwork to solve real-world problems that help improve healthcare for billions of people around the world.

Joining Tesseract is the opportunity to redesign the future of healthcare through the power of technology. Join us on this journey to maximize global impact, motivated by the idea that our products will change lives, including the ones of people you love.

What We Live By

• Patients First: We are driven to make products that will improve people’s lives.
• Data-Driven: We search for the best solutions: objective, backed by data, and optimized for speed, simplicity and scale.
• Team-Oriented: We collaborate with and support each other every step of the way.

What You Will Be Doing

Tesseract Health is looking for an experienced Data Engineer to lead the development of our clinical data infrastructure, which will help us develop industry-leading disease prediction applications. This engineer is someone who is passionate about the cloud, data infrastructure, and the "pipes" that allow information to flow between services. As a Data Engineer at Tesseract, you will create the infrastructure for Tesseract Health to be able to ingest medical data in a regulatory compliant way, structure it, and work easily with it across our systems

As part of our team, your core responsibilities will be to:

• Become the owner and subject matter expert for data engineering at Tesseract. Design systems to solve problems across data ingestion, data access, EHR integration, and backend system design.
• Drive the development of Tesseract Health’s EHR integration for patient information and work orders. Create a seamless integration between Tesseract Health and existing office workflows.
• Create the architecture for our ML team to work with retinal images, transforming data and annotations into structured and versioned datasets.
• Develop solutions to streamline data sharing with partners and 3rd parties, including de-identification of data.
• Work with a talented team of software engineers with skills in full-stack development and machine learning. Support new feature development, and design scalable systems to help us bring our groundbreaking medical device to market.

What We Are Looking For

Baseline Skills, Experiences, & Attributes

• 3 years experience in backend engineering, data engineering, or related field
• Experience designing APIs (REST, GraphQL) and developing data pipelines using state-of-the-art tooling (ex. Airflow, dbt, Snowflake)
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including serverless architecture (Lambda) and infrastructure-as-code (ex. CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK)
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, including relevant AWS tooling (Redshift, Aurora, DynamoDB, Glacier)
• Experience working in production software development with Python
• Experience creating cross-team agreement on engineering solutions and architecture decisions
• We are open to this role being onsite, hybrid or fully remote.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Electronic Health Record integration, including Redox Engine or Epic
• Experience working with medical image data, especially DICOM, for production and regulated clinical applications. Experience with Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) and DICOM image viewers
• Experience working with image annotations / labels for training ML models
• High-level knowledge of machine learning, computer vision, and model development
• Experience with data privacy, HIPAA, PHI / PII deidentification, and role-based access controls

What We Offer

• Fully covered medical insurance plan, and dental & vision coverage. As a health-tech company, we place great worth on our team’s well-being.
• Competitive salaried compensation & equity. You should feel appropriately valued and have a stake in our success!
• 401(k) plan. Everyone should be encouraged to save for their retirement adventures!
• Flexible PTO policy and remote/hybrid work arrangements. We believe in taking personal responsibility for managing our own time, workload and results. 
• Free onsite meals & kitchen stocked with snacks at our Guilford, CT campus. 
• Annual "Improve Your Work Environment" stipend. We support what you need to be your best self when at work!
• Professional development reimbursement. Let's grow together!
• More exciting employee perks... but most importantly, the opportunity to build a revolutionary healthcare product and save millions of lives! 

For this role, we provide visa assistance for qualified candidates. 

Tesseract does not accept agency resumes.Tesseract is an E-Verify and equal opportunity employer regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or Veteran status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.