Sr. Software Engineer/Tech Lead, Data & AI EngineeringPosted today$188K

The opportunity

Natera is a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, serving patients across oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our Data & AI organization builds the enterprise data platform and AI systems that turn clinical, genomic, and operational data into products that improve patient care and accelerate the business.

What you'll do

  • Own the technical design and architecture for the analytics and AI solutions: your team delivers; drive design reviews and make build-vs-buy and technology decisions in partnership with the data platform and architecture teams.

  • Translate business stakeholder needs into well-scoped technical designs,: breaking down complex analytics initiatives into deliverable milestones for the team.

  • Establish and enforce engineering standards for modeling, pipeline design,: testing, CI/CD, and observability so solutions are built consistently and reusably across business domains.

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and transformations on: our cloud data platform, sourcing clinical, laboratory, operational, and commercial data to serve business analytics.

  • Develop governed data models and semantic layers that power self-service: analytics, dashboards, and data products (e.g., Patient 360, Provider 360, Test 360) for business teams.

  • Develop AI solutions to enable business productivity and automation through: use of agentic workflows, RAG/retrieval, and LLM pipelines (extraction/classification)

What they're looking for

  • Write production-grade SQL and Python; contribute to shared frameworks,: templates, and tooling that let the team deliver new analytics solutions faster.
  • Ensure the data layer supports performant, trustworthy analytics and LLM: querying ; lead root-cause analysis on complex data issues and drive durable fixes.
  • Use AI coding assistants and agentic tools daily across the development: lifecycle—design, coding, testing, documentation, and operations—and measurably increase your own and the team’s throughput.
  • Define and scale the team’s AI-native engineering practices: prompt and context patterns, reusable agent workflows, AI-assisted testing and review, and the guardrails that keep quality and compliance intact.