Ikerian AG (formerly RetinAI Medical) is a fast-growing medical device software company headquartered in Bern, Switzerland.
Our mission is to enable the right decisions sooner in healthcare, through transformative AI & data management solutions for disease screening and monitoring.
Join our diverse team of entrepreneurs, developers, researchers, and commercial experts who are collectively shaping the future of healthcare.
We build AI/ML systems on clinical imaging and patient data.
As our Research Data Operations Engineer, you'll own the data backbone our researchers depend on: the pipelines, tooling, and governance that keep thousands of patient images, multiple modalities, and EHR excerpts clean, findable, versioned, and compliant.
We are looking for a Research Data Operations Engineer to join our team.
This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, ML infrastructure, and data governance.
It's hands?on.
You will write the scripts, stand up the infrastructure, and own data integrity end to end.
Support data versioning (DVC) running smoothly, and make updating, tracking, and rolling back datasets routine




Build and maintain pipelines and tools to clean, validate, and organize clinical imaging data and EHR excerpts
Make data annotation fast and painless for researchers
Set up and manage access controls so the right people reach the right data
Keep data handling aligned with clinical and privacy regulations
Own data integrity across the full data lifecycle
University degree in Computer Science or related field.
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
Strong Python skills, Rust ideally, R is a plus
Solid data engineering fundamentals: pipelines, file and format handling, validation, versioning
A high bar for correctness, reproducibility, and data integrity
Experience handling sensitive or regulated data, or the discipline to get up to speed quickly
Several years building and operating data tooling and infrastructure
Hands?on experience with DVC or similar data?Rust in production (deployed in a professional environment)
Opportunities for professional growth and development in an international setting

📌 Research Data Operations Engineer - Full Time - Hybrid (Madrid)
🏢 Ikerian
📍 Madrid