Location: New York
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
The Mount Sinai Program for Surgical Intelligence is seeking a Data Engineer to support the development and deployment of data-driven tools in surgical care. This role will focus on building and maintaining data pipelines, managing surgical datasets (including operative video), and supporting execution of technical and clinical research initiatives. The Data Engineer will work closely with surgeons, engineers, and researchers to ensure surgical data is reliable, well-organized, and accessible for downstream analytics and machine learning applications. This is a hands-on role with significant responsibility and opportunities for growth. Prior experience working with healthcare data systems is strongly preferred, as this role will require immediate engagement with clinical datasets and interoperability challenges. The role may be hybrid but will be partially on-site at the Mount Sinai Hospital campus on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The position will be managed by surgeons within the Mount Sinai Department of Surgery who will serve as clinical experts and liaisons for real world application of the work, as well as information technology experts who will provide the appropriate technical resources to carry out the role successfully. - Design, build, and maintain data pipelines for surgical datasets, including structured data and operative video - Support ingestion, organization, curation, and access control for an operative video repository - Collaborate with clinical and research teams to define data schemas, metadata standards, and labeling conventions - Ensure data quality, traceability, and reproducibility across projects - Build durable data pipelines and organizational structures that support ongoing research and clinical deployment, rather than one-off analyses - Support execution of research and clinical AI projects across the Department of Surgery - Track project milestones, deliverables, and documentation - Maintain datasets, technical documentation, and