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Sword Health is hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer

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Job Description

At Sword, we’re building AI to heal billions and unlock humanity’s full potential. In doing so, we’re pioneering AI Care, a fundamentally new approach to healthcare built for medical reasoning, safety, and real-time treatment, not generic technology applied after the fact. As both a clinical-centric frontier AI lab and an applied AI platform, Sword is reimagining how care is delivered at scale, removing traditional barriers like appointments, waiting rooms, and stigma so more people can access the care they need—and ultimately get back to lives lived in full.

Since 2020, Sword has expanded across physical therapy, women’s health, cardiometabolic, and mental health, and is now moving beyond the session to a fully AI-native, 24/7 care program that brings physical activity, therapeutic exercise, psychotherapy, nutrition, and behavior change into one connected experience. More than 700,000 members across three continents have completed over 10 million AI sessions, helping 1,000+ enterprise clients avoid more than $1 billion in unnecessary healthcare costs. Backed by 42 clinical studies, 44+ patents, and more than $500 million raised from leading investors including Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund, Sword is defining a new standard for healthcare.

At Sword, data powers our mission to build a pain-free world. The Data Platform Team is building the foundation that makes data usable across clinical, operations, AI, and product teams: a modern streaming lakehouse, distributed processing for low-latency data movement, durable workflows coordinating complex operations, and an API-first surface that lets producers and consumers serve themselves - without tickets, without infra context, and increasingly through agentic interfaces.

This role is for an engineer who thinks about data platforms as products. You’ve built or operated data systems at scale, you reason fluently from storage format up to query engine, and you want to shape the self-service and agentic experiences layered on top of that foundation.

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AI Proficiency at Sword Health

AI fluency is a core expectation at Sword Health. Every candidate is assessed against our three-level framework — be ready to share real examples of how AI is already part of how you work.

  • Explorer (Level 1) — Uses AI daily to boost personal productivity

  • Builder (Level 2) — Creates workflows and tools that elevate the whole team

  • Integrator (Level 3) — Embeds AI into products and processes at scale

  • Every hire must demonstrate at least Level 1. The expected level will vary depending on the seniority of the role.


    What you’ll be doing
  • Design and evolve Sword’s streaming lakehouse - the foundation that every data consumer in the company depends on.

  • Build and operate distributed streaming pipelines that move data at low latency and high reliability.

  • Own the durable workflows that coordinate complex data movement across systems.

  • Shape the platform’s API surface - the interface producers and consumers use so they never need to touch infrastructure.

  • Drive evaluations and integrations with vendor data platforms, sitting inside the architectural trade-offs rather than just consuming the output.

  • Contribute to the self-service and agentic layer: interfaces designed to be consumed by humans, systems, and AI agents alike.

  • Partner with data engineers and analysts on contracts, governance, and lineage.

  • Build and maintain AI-ready data infrastructure that powers ML and AI-driven products across Sword.

  • Leverage AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development, automate documentation, and raise code quality.

  • Work in a regulated environment where audit, compliance, and governance are part of every design.


  • *This range includes base, variable and equity

    These compensation bands are just the starting point. Once someone joins and proves they’re outlier talent, we adjust quickly to ensure their compensation aligns with their impact.

    Our job titles may span more than one career level. Actual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, location, market demand, and other factors. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary and any potential variable, bonus or sales incentives, and the Company’s estimation of the value of private company stock options, if applicable. The pay range is subject to change, future value of company stock options is not guaranteed, and compensation may be modified in the future. In addition to our total compensation, Sword offers a number of benefits as listed below.
     
    Portugal - Sword Benefits & Perks:
     
    • Health, dental and vision insurance
    • Meal allowance
    • Equity shares
    • Remote work allowance
    • Flexible working hours
    • Work from home
    • Discretionary vacation
    • Snacks and beverages
     
    Note: Please note that this position does not offer relocation assistance. Candidates must possess a valid EU visa and be based in Portugal.
     
    Sword Health complies with applicable Federal and State civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of Age, Ancestry, Color, Citizenship, Gender, Gender expression, Gender identity, Gender information, Marital status, Medical condition, National origin, Physical or mental disability, Pregnancy, Race, Religion, Caste, Sexual orientation, and Veteran status.
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    Salary Information

    Salary: $95,000 - $145,000

    🤖 This salary estimate is calculated by AI based on the job title, location, company, and market data. Use this as a guide for salary expectations or negotiations. The actual salary may vary based on your experience, qualifications, and company policies.

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