Forward Deployed Analytics Engineer
Quick facts
- Pay
- $150,000 - $200,000 base + competitive equity
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- New York, New York
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Skills
- Python, SQL
- Industry
- Information Technology — 680 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
Forward Deployed Analytics Engineer
Company: Translucent
Location: New York, NY (Union Square, Manhattan) - 4 days in office, 1 day remote
Compensation: $150,000 - $200,000 base (based on experience and qualifications) + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
About Translucent
Translucent is the agentic AI platform built exclusively for healthcare finance. It gives every finance team, department and service line in a health system its own set of AI agents that run around the clock, understand the organization's specific data, business logic and workflows, and move finance teams off spreadsheets and disconnected legacy tools. The agents trace financial performance across service lines, providers and payers and show where a health system is gaining or losing margin, turning days of manual analysis into answers on demand. The platform is already deployed across health systems managing billions of dollars in combined revenue.
Founded in 2024 and headquartered in New York, Translucent has raised $34M and has a team of about 27.
The Role
This role sits between a customer's financial and clinical data and the AI systems that run on top of it. You will reverse-engineer each customer's business rules, from payer contract logic to chart-of-accounts idiosyncrasies, and build the transformations that map raw customer data into Translucent's unified ontology and semantic layer. Analytics engineering is the source of truth the entire platform runs on. If the data is not right, there is no AI and no trust.
You will thrive here if you know healthcare data well enough to spot a wrong number before anyone else does.
What You Will Do
- Review customer data models. Work directly with finance and clinical teams, sometimes on site, to capture their source-of-truth logic firsthand.
- Codify business rules. Turn under-documented payer contract and chart-of-accounts logic into durable, tested transformations.
- Build in SQL. Map customer data into the unified ontology and semantic layer inside a managed pipeline.
- Own correctness. Set and hold the testing and validation bar on everything you ship.
- Expand the ontology. Partner with insights and product engineering as new customer needs and data sources come in.
What You Bring
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering
- Strong SQL, plus working proficiency in Python
- Experience with data transformation tools and modern data pipelines
- Deep familiarity with healthcare financial and clinical data, such as payer contract logic and chart-of-accounts structures
- Comfort working directly with customer finance and clinical stakeholders, including occasional on-site visits
- Authorization to work in the US without sponsorship (US citizen or Green Card holder). An H-1B transfer may be considered for an exceptional candidate.
Team and Culture
The engineering team is small, senior and deliberately kept that way. It runs on a flat, democratic structure with a documentation-driven culture, RFC-style workflows, and decisions made by gathering input rather than handed down from the top. Development is heavily AI-assisted, with strong human judgment layered on top. The team is led by a former YC founder and CTO. The company and its market are evolving quickly, so this role suits people who are comfortable with rapid change and expect their role to look different in six months.
Tech Stack
SQL, Python, data transformation tools, modern data pipelines
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name Transparent Search Group in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Data Scientists (SOC 15-2051).
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This kind of role may fit the USMCA profession “Mathematician / Statistician” — it depends on the actual duties. No lottery, no cap; you need the matching degree or license.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
- STEM OPT extension (F-1 students)
Requires an E-Verify employer. We didn't find this company in the E-Verify list — ask HR.
Salary vs prevailing wage
Level IV (fully competent)Data Scientists · New York (state median of areas). Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $64,251 | ~15% |
| Level II | $85,748 | ~31% |
| Level III | $106,434 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $126,392 | ~61% |
This job pays $150,000–$200,000 a year — that's Level IV (fully competent). In the wage-weighted H-1B lottery a Level IV registration gets 4 entries; estimated selection chance about 61% — better than average.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.