At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional care. And that starts with our people. As a leading health tech company that’s founder-led and privately held, we empower our employees to push boundaries, innovate, and shape the future of healthcare.
With the largest long-term and post-acute care dataset and a Marketplace of 400+ integrated partners, our platform serves over 30,000 provider organizations, making a real difference in millions of lives. We also reinvest a significant percentage of our revenue back into research and development, ensuring our employees have the resources to innovate and make a lasting impact. Recognized by Forbes as a top private cloud company and honored as one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, we offer flexibility, growth opportunities, and meaningful work.
At PointClickCare, we empower our people to be the architects of a smarter healthcare future; one that is human-first and accelerated by AI to create meaningful and lasting change. Employees harness AI as a catalyst for creativity, productivity, and thoughtful decision-making. By integrating AI tools into our daily workflows, collaboration is enhanced, outcomes are improved, and every team member has the proficiency to maximize their impact. It all starts with our hiring practices where we uncover AI expertise that complements our mission, and we continue to invest in training and development to nurture innovation throughout the employee journey.
**Travel to Office expectations**
For Remote Roles: If this role is remote, there will be in-office events that will require travel to and from the Mississauga and/or Salt Lake City office. These will include, but not limited to, onboarding, team events, semi-annual and annual team meetings.
For Hybrid Roles: If this role is Hybrid, there will be an expectation to reside within commutable distance to the office/location specified in the job listing. This will include, but not limited to, weekly/bi-weekly/monthly events in the office with your specific team. This is a requirement for this role.
At PointClickCare, we are building the data foundation that powers the next generation of AI and machine learning products in healthcare. We are seeking a Senior Applied Research Data Engineer who thrives at the intersection of data engineering, applied research, and domain discovery.
This is not a traditional data engineering role focused solely on pipelines and infrastructure. You will work closely with AI researchers, data scientists, clinicians, and product experts to transform complex healthcare data into trusted, reusable, AI-ready research assets. Success in this role requires curiosity, investigative thinking, and the ability to uncover meaning in complex, poorly documented systems.
You will be responsible for learning new domains quickly by reading source code, reverse-engineering SQL and business logic, interviewing subject matter experts, and building durable semantic data products that support experimentation, model development, evaluation, and production AI systems.
The ideal candidate enjoys solving data mysteries, creating order from ambiguity, and building datasets that researchers trust. You understand that the quality, semantics, lineage, and documentation of a dataset are often more important than the model itself.
In this role, you will:
- Build and own reusable gold-layer data products that power AI, machine learning, and generative AI research.
- Transform structured, semi-structured, and unstructured healthcare data into trusted, model-ready datasets.
- Investigate and document complex business logic by analyzing source systems, stored procedures, application code, and stakeholder workflows.
- Partner directly with researchers to design datasets for experimentation, evaluation, and model training.
- Create semantic data definitions, lineage documentation, provenance records, and data quality frameworks that enable reproducible research.
- Develop point-in-time-correct datasets, feature sets, and evaluation corpora for classical ML and generative AI workloads.
- Support advanced AI data preparation techniques including programmatic labeling, weak supervision, synthetic data generation, and research dataset curation.
- Serve as a bridge between domain experts, researchers, and engineering teams, turning tacit knowledge into durable data assets.
What makes someone successful in this role:
- You enjoy learning new domains and solving ambiguous data problems.
- You are comfortable working with incomplete documentation and legacy systems.
- You naturally ask "What does this data really mean?" before asking "How do I process it?"
- You can translate conversations with clinicians, product experts, and researchers into robust data products.
- You create documentation, data definitions, and semantic models that other teams depend on.
- You care deeply about data quality, reproducibility, provenance, and research integrity.
Required Skills and Experience
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Track record of learning complex new data domains quickly, through reading source code, interviewing experts, and building durable artifacts others rely on.
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Advanced Python, SQL, and PySpark/Databricks for working with large, messy data. Expert SQL specifically: comfortable reading complex stored procedures and reverse-engineering business logic from queries.
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AI domain literacy: working understanding of embeddings, tokenization, feature engineering, point-in-time correctness, train/validation/test splits, data drift, and the differences between what classical ML and generative models need from data.
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Data wrangling across modalities: transforming unstructured content (text, PDFs, transcripts, logs) and structured tabular data into clean, model-ready forms.
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AI-friendly data formats (Parquet, Hugging Face datasets) and storage layout decisions — partitioning, sharding, caching, that keep researcher workflows responsive in Azure, AWS or other working environments.
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Data quality, filtering, and synthesis pipelines: support for programmatic labeling and weak supervision (e.g. Snorkel or equivalent), near-duplicate detection (MinHash/LSH), content and quality filters, LLM-API-driven synthetic data generation.
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Pipeline orchestration (e.g. a la Airflow, Databricks Workflows, Dagster, or Prefect) and dataset versioning including Unity Catalog and feature-store support.
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Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, engineering, statistics, or related field. Equivalent practical experience considered.
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Hands-on EHR data experience, ideally in skilled nursing, long-term care, post-acute care, or senior living.
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Working knowledge of clinical terminologies (ICD-10, SNOMED CT, LOINC) and data standards (HL7v2, FHIR, CCDA).
AI researchers can start new projects without spending the opening weeks reconstructing what PointClickCare entities mean or rebuilding the same transformations. The gold datasets they need exist, are versioned, are documented, and accelerate work across EDA, experiments, model development, and evaluation. As coverage expands across data types, modalities, and product surfaces, the function grows with it.
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PointClickCare Benefits & Perks:
Benefits starting from Day 1!
Retirement Plan Matching
Flexible Paid Time Off
Wellness Support Programs and Resources
Parental & Caregiver Leaves
Fertility & Adoption Support
Continuous Development Support Program
Employee Assistance Program
Allyship and Inclusion Communities
Employee Recognition … and more!
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