Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?
Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.
Role Overview
Tempus is seeking a Business Intelligence (BI) Engineer to support reporting, analytics, and data solutions that help teams make informed, data-driven decisions. This role partners with business stakeholders, data engineering, product, and operations teams to turn business needs into dashboards, metrics, and analytical datasets.
The BI Engineer will help develop reporting solutions, improve data accessibility, and contribute to a strong data culture across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain BI dashboards, reports, and self-service analytics tools for cross-functional stakeholders.
- Partner with business teams to define KPIs, reporting requirements, and success metrics.
- Support the development and maintenance of curated data models for consistent reporting.
- Write SQL and data transformation logic to prepare data for analytics use cases.
- Collaborate with data engineers and platform teams to support business reporting needs.
- Validate data accuracy and troubleshoot discrepancies in reports and dashboards.
- Improve documentation, metric definitions, and data governance practices for analytics assets.
- Support ad hoc analysis and help stakeholders interpret trends and operational insights.
- Identify opportunities to automate recurring reporting.
- Contribute to BI best practices, visualization standards, and data quality monitoring.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical field such as Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in business intelligence, analytics, data analytics, or a similar role.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases and structured datasets.
- Experience building dashboards and reports in BI tools such as Tableau, Looker, Power BI, or similar platforms.
- Ability to work with business stakeholders to translate requirements into reporting solutions.
- Familiarity with data modeling concepts and metric definitions.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and quality.
- Effective communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred
- Experience working in healthcare, life sciences, diagnostics, or other regulated environments.
- Familiarity with data transformation tools such as dbt or similar frameworks.
- Experience with Python, R, or another scripting language for analysis or automation.
- Understanding of data warehousing concepts and modern analytics stacks.
- Exposure to operational analytics or product analytics.
- Experience documenting KPIs, business logic, and analytics definitions for shared use.
CHI: $70,000-$90,000The expected salary range may vary for other locations. Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits depending on the position.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, a related quantitative or technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in business intelligence, analytics, data analytics, or a similar role
- Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases and structured datasets
- Experience building dashboards and reports with Tableau, Looker, Power BI, or similar BI platforms
- Ability to translate business stakeholder requirements into reporting solutions
- Familiarity with data modeling concepts and metric definitions
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and quality
- Effective communication with technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, diagnostics, or regulated environments
- Familiarity with dbt or similar data transformation frameworks
- Experience with Python, R, or another scripting language for analysis or automation
- Understanding of data warehousing concepts and modern analytics stacks
- Exposure to operational analytics or product analytics
- Experience documenting KPIs, business logic, and analytics definitions
What the Team is Saying
Tempus AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options with PPO choices, plus HSA/FSA and mental‑health resources. While plan costs can vary, the scope of coverage stands out across the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is presented as flexible or unlimited for many corporate roles, alongside paid holidays and sick time. Laboratory roles may follow separate structures, but many corporate teams benefit from flexible PTO models.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Workplace perks such as snacks, onsite coffee bars, commuter benefits, gym discounts, pet insurance, and modern offices are available at select hubs. These amenities add everyday convenience beyond core insurance and leave programs.
Tempus AI Insights
What We Do
We bring together one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal clinical and molecular data with a robust suite of AI tools to help physicians personalize care in real time, connect patients with therapies and clinical trials, and enable partners to accelerate discovery and development of new treatments. With ~8 million de-identified research records and 350+ petabytes of data, Tempus partners with more than half of U.S. oncologists and the majority of the top 20 global pharma companies. Our teams are pioneering work across oncology, neurology, psychiatry, cardiology, and beyond—transforming how care is delivered and therapies are developed. At Tempus, every role contributes to our mission: to help each patient benefit from the experiences of those who came before. For more information, visit tempus.com.
Why Work With Us
We’re looking for people who can change the world. People who question the status quo and refuse to shy away from tough problems. For builders who are never done building, and the learners who are never done learning. Passionate individuals with undying curiosity who want to take on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced—head on.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Most of the team follows a hybrid policy, with some roles allowing for a fully remote arrangement and some roles being onsite only.
