Altarum | Data & AI Center of Excellence (CoE)
Altarum is building the future of data and AI infrastructure for public health - and we’re looking for a Principal Data Engineer – ML Platforms to help lead the way. In this cornerstone role, you will design, build, and operationalize the modern data and ML platform capabilities that power analytics, evaluation, AI modeling, and interoperability across all Altarum divisions.
If you want to architect impactful systems, enable data science at scale, and help ensure public health and Medicaid programs operate with secure, explainable, and trustworthy AI - this role is for you.
What You'll Work On
This role blends deep engineering with applied ML enablement:
ML Platform Engineering: modern lakehouse architecture, pipelines, MLOps lifecycle
Applied ML enablement: risk scoring, forecasting, Medicaid analytics
NLP/Generative AI support: RAG, vectorization, health communications
Causal ML operationalization: evaluation modeling workflows
Responsible/Trusted AI engineering: model cards, fairness, compliance
Your work ensures that Altarum’s public health and Medicaid programs run on secure, scalable, reusable, and explainable data and AI infrastructure.
Altarum is a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations disenfranchised by the health care system. We work primarily on behalf of federal and state governments to design and implement solutions that achieve measurable results. We combine our expertise in public health and health care delivery with technology development and implementation, practice transformation, training and technical assistance, quality improvement, data analytics, and applied research and evaluation. Our innovative solutions and proven processes lead to better value and health for all.
Altarum is an equal opportunity employer that provides employment and opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.