What is a Data Engineer at Hinge Health?
A Data Engineer at Hinge Health plays a pivotal role in powering the world's leading digital clinic for joint and muscle pain. At its core, Hinge Health relies on data to deliver personalized, clinically backed care pathways to millions of users. As a member of the data engineering team, you are responsible for building, optimizing, and maintaining the foundational data pipelines that ingest information from wearable sensors, patient-reported outcomes, and clinical databases. Your work directly impacts how the business measures clinical efficacy, refines treatment programs, and demonstrates value to enterprise employers and health plans.
This role is highly collaborative and sits at the intersection of software engineering, data science, and clinical research. You will design scalable architectures that handle sensitive patient information under strict regulatory frameworks like HIPAA. By delivering clean, reliable, and timely data, you enable Data Scientists to train machine learning models and Healthcare Economists to perform complex cost-saving analyses.
The data engineering challenges at Hinge Health are both complex and rewarding. You will be dealing with high-velocity sensor data, diverse integration points, and the need for near-real-time processing. For engineers who thrive on solving complex data modeling problems and want their technical contributions to directly improve human health and well-being, this position offers an incredibly high-impact environment.
