Senior AI Application Engineer (Remote Opportunity)
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Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement enterprise AI applications utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
- Develop AI-assisted search, summarization, and question-answering capabilities using Amazon Bedrock.
- Build reusable AI services supporting prompt orchestration, document retrieval, and response generation.
- Implement prompt engineering and source-grounding strategies to improve AI accuracy, consistency, traceability, and clinical relevance, including source links that support human verification.
- Optimize AI performance while balancing response quality, latency, and operational cost.
- Design and develop secure, scalable cloud-native applications utilizing modern software engineering practices.
- Develop RESTful APIs and backend services supporting AI capabilities and enterprise integrations.
- Implement approved document retrieval, vector search, and semantic search capabilities within the selected patient context and CHSD document set.
- Develop automated unit, integration, and functional tests and repeatable AI evaluations for groundedness, retrieval quality, and clinical relevance supporting AI-enabled applications.
- Troubleshoot software defects, optimize application performance, and support activities within the approved test environment and for future production readiness.
- Integrate AI capabilities into existing enterprise healthcare applications and clinical workflows.
- Develop secure interfaces utilizing REST APIs and modern integration patterns.
- Support interoperability utilizing healthcare standards including FHIR, HL7, and CCD.
- Collaborate with Solution Architects and engineering teams to implement scalable and maintainable application designs.
- Participate in code reviews and promote software engineering best practices across the development team.
- Develop secure software in accordance with Federal cybersecurity and privacy requirements, including approved data-retention and purge controls.
- Support CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and cloud-native operational practices.
- Implement logging, monitoring, audit capabilities, and operational telemetry, including model and prompt version tracking, usage and cost monitoring, and controls to detect model, prompt, retrieval, and data drift.
- Support application security scanning, vulnerability remediation, and activities within the approved test environment and for future production readiness.
- Incorporate Responsible AI, Human-in-the-Loop (HITL), and AI governance principles into application development.
- Collaborate with architects, product owners, clinicians, cybersecurity teams, and Government stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, backlog refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
- Contribute to technical documentation, implementation guides, and software design artifacts.
- Present technical solutions and implementation approaches to project leadership and stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years developing enterprise software applications.
- 5+ years developing cloud-native applications utilizing AWS or comparable cloud platforms.
- Demonstrated experience developing Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or Generative AI solutions.
- Experience implementing applications utilizing Amazon Bedrock or similar enterprise AI platforms.
- Experience developing enterprise REST APIs and cloud-native application services.
- Amazon Bedrock and AWS cloud services
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Prompt engineering and AI evaluation
- Python, Java, or C#
- REST APIs and JSON
- Vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search
- Git, CI/CD, and DevSecOps
- Healthcare interoperability (FHIR, HL7, CCD)
Additional Qualifications
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering principles and cloud-native application development.
- Experience developing scalable, secure, and maintainable enterprise applications.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Government Public Trust clearance.
- Experience supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Defense (DoD), or other Federal healthcare organizations.
- Experience developing AI-enabled clinical workflow, information-retrieval, or clinician-support applications requiring human validation.
- Experience implementing vector search, embeddings, semantic search, and prompt orchestration.
- Knowledge of Responsible AI, NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF), NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and FedRAMP.
- Familiarity with clinical terminology standards including SNOMED CT, ICD-10, RxNorm, and LOINC.
- AWS Developer, AWS AI, Machine Learning, or other AWS cloud certifications are highly desirable.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) with Employer Match
- Paid Time Off plus Federal Holidays
- Corporate Laptop
- Professional Development and Training Opportunities
- Remote Opportunity
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
- Sorry, we are unable to offer sponsorship at this time.
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