Role Description The Software/Data Engineer develops, integrates, and sustains software applications, databases, data collection platforms, and interoperability solutions supporting military hearing research, public health initiatives, and clinical implementation programs. Remote (U.S.) with occasional travel. Responsibilities - Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications. - Develop and maintain databases and data collection systems. - Support interoperability between healthcare and operational systems. - Design automated workflows and reporting solutions. - Develop APIs and interfaces supporting clinical and research applications. - Support software lifecycle management activities. - Implement cybersecurity controls and compliance requirements. - Support analytics, data visualization, and business intelligence initiatives. - Prepare technical documentation and user guides. - Support evaluation and deployment of emerging technologies. Qualifications - Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Possess knowledge of Microsoft Office applications. - Possess excellent ability to manage multiple tasks with competing deadlines. - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field preferred, or equivalent experience. - Minimum two (2) years of software engineering, systems engineering, or data engineering experience. - U.S. Citizenship required. - Ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Government suitability determination. - Ability to obtain and maintain SECRET clearance if required. Preferred Qualifications - Experience supporting DHA, DoD, VA, or federal healthcare systems. - Experience with healthcare interoperability standards including HL7 and FHIR. - Experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or enterprise databases. - Experience supporting MHS GENESIS, DOEHRS-HC, ECAA, JHASIR, or similar systems. - Experience developing research data collection platforms. - Experience with Azure, AWS, or cloud-hosted environments. - Experience developing analytics dashboards and reporting tools. - Experience implementing automation, AI-assisted processes, or machine learning solutions. - Familiarity with NIST 800-171, DFARS 252.204-7012, and DoD cybersecurity requirements. - Experience supporting geographically dispersed teams, hybrid work environments, remote operations, or nationwide field activities. - Preferred candidates will have current or prior experience supporting the Defense Health Agency (DHA), Hearing Center of Excellence (HCE), National Military Audiology and Speech Pathology Center (NMASC), Defense Centers for Public Health (DCPH), Military Health System (MHS), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), military treatment facilities (MTFs), hearing conservation programs, auditory readiness initiatives, or other military health and public health programs. Benefits - The salary range for this position is $110,000.00 to $145,000.00 annually. - Competitive base salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. - Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance. - 401(k) plan with company matching. - Tax-deferred savings options. - Supplementary benefits. - Paid time off. - Professional development opportunities.

Role Description We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer to lead our Document Intelligence initiatives as a core member of our research and engineering organization. This is a high-impact individual contributor and technical leadership role focused on advancing the state of machine learning, Data Science, NLP, and intelligent document processing within our platform. You will work closely with product, data, and engineering teams and the CTO to design systems that turn unstructured document data into actionable intelligence — at scale. Key Responsibilities - Lead research and engineering efforts in document intelligence, including OCR post-processing, document classification, information extraction, and layout understanding. - Design and implement scalable machine learning pipelines and data architectures that support document AI workloads in production environments. - Define the technical vision and roadmap for document intelligence capabilities across the organization. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into ML system designs, model architectures, and data platform decisions. - Evaluate, adapt, and extend state-of-the-art NLP and vision-language models for document understanding tasks. - Establish best practices for ML experimentation, model versioning, evaluation, and deployment (MLOps). - Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers and researchers across the team. - Drive data architecture decisions that support both model training pipelines and downstream analytics and reporting needs. - Publish or present research findings internally and, where appropriate, externally. Qualifications - 10+ years of professional experience in R&D, machine learning, applied research, or data engineering. - Deep expertise in Document Intelligence — including OCR, document parsing, layout analysis, information extraction, and classification. - Strong data architecture background, including experience designing data lakes, feature stores, and ML data pipelines. - Proficiency in Python and relevant ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace Transformers, etc.). - Experience taking ML models from research and prototyping through to production deployment at scale. - Solid understanding of NLP fundamentals and modern large language/vision-language model architectures. - Experience with cloud-based ML platforms and infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure). - Strong written and verbal communication skills — ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Preferred - PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, or a closely related field. - Experience with document AI frameworks such as LayoutLM, Donut, PaddleOCR, Amazon Textract, or similar. - Publications or contributions to peer-reviewed research in NLP, computer vision, or document understanding. - Familiarity with enterprise document workflows — AP automation, contract processing, medical records, or similar domains. - Prior experience in a principal, staff, or lead engineer capacity with ownership over a technical domain.

• Write traditional code and server-less functions using the language best suited for the task, which is primarily Scala. May include development with C# and SQL. • Build APIs, data microservices and ETL pipelines, to share data with internal and external partners and write interfaces to public data sets to enrich our analytics data stores. • Develop and optimize processes for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) and implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks to enhance AI-driven solutions. • Participate in building and owning a culture of DevOps and Quality Assurance. • Continuously document your code, framework standards, and team processes. • Build and support Data Ingestion frameworks deployed in Azure. • Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Role Description As a Data Engineer you will handle everything from data architecture and modeling to data pipeline tooling and dashboarding. You will enable other compliance and risk teams to make impactful business decisions by laying the foundation of our large and unique datasets that span across multiple products. This role will support compliance or risk product data engineering teams. The Compliance Data Engineering team at Block supports the detection and reporting of suspicious financial crimes activity across Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. We work globally with partners in business, engineering, counsel, and product to provide a safe user experience for our customers while minimizing and potentially eliminating bad activity on our platform. The Risk Product Data Engineering team at Block builds reliable data foundations that help protect customers across Cash App, Square, and Afterpay. We partner with product, engineering, compliance, and legal teams to support risk detection, reporting, instrumentation, and ML-ready datasets across critical domains including identity, account access, eligibility, controls, and disputes. - Lead the creation and optimization of existing data models through AI code generation on eventing, customer level, and process level data. - Standardize business and product metric definitions in curated and optimized datasets, and develop data dictionaries and other related documentation. - Build monitoring to assess data quality and lineage and on top build AI agents for false positive reduction and automated resolution. - Participate in on-call rotation, monitor daily execution, diagnose and log issues, and fix business critical pipelines to ensure SLAs are met with internal stakeholders. Automate this process through AI agents to focus human effort on highest priority tasks. - Work with non-technical partners and product teams to understand their needs, translate business requirements into applicable data requirements, and come up with automated end-to-end solutions. Qualifications - A minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent experience. - High proficiency in SQL, Python, and Dbt. - Experience designing medium-to-large data engineering solutions and responsible for the entire lifecycle of projects including scoping, design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation. - Experience with ETL scheduling technologies with dependency checking, such as Airflow or Prefect. - Experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling. - Experience with setting up data quality and data lineage monitoring. - Experience with data driven decisions through AI and agentic automation. Technologies We Use and Teach - Snowflake - Databricks - Dbt - Github - Airflow - Prefect - Omni - Terraform Benefits - Remote work - Medical insurance - Flexible time off - Retirement savings plans - Modern family planning Company Description Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. - Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. - Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. - Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. - TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. - Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. - Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we’re helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.