AI/ML Back-end Engineer

About the role

Exceptional care starts with exceptional people. For us, this is more than a job– it’s a calling. It’s waking up each day, looking for ways to make a difference with a compassionate, inclusive and talented team. Ochsner empowers you to discover your passion, reach your potential, and Pursue Your Purpose. Exceptional care starts with exceptional people and teams. Together we are leading the way.

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, and maintains server-side services, APIs, and system architecture for AI-enabled applications.
• Develops and documents REST APIs and integration endpoints consumed by front-end engineers, conversational flows, and connected enterprise systems.
• Designs and manages data storage solutions and server-side data structures, and produces reusable, well-tested code libraries.
• Implements authentication, authorization, and security controls appropriate to a HIPAA-regulated environment, including secure handling of protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII).
• Inspects and optimizes services for speed, scalability, latency, and stability, and troubleshoots defects and performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborates with product managers, quality assurance, integration engineers, and front-end and design teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Follows change-management and backup practices before making significant changes to production services.
• Performs other duties as assigned and complies with all policies and standards.
• Remains knowledgeable on current federal, state and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensures compliance with all such laws, regulations and standards.
• Maintains compliance with the employer’s Compliance & Privacy Program and Standards of Conduct, including immediate reporting of any known or suspected unethical or questionable behaviors or conduct; patient/employee safety, patient privacy, and/or other compliance-related concerns.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; equivalent practical experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Work Experience: 5 years professional back-end/server side software development experience, including building and consuming RESTful APIs, with Python/FastAPI and async frameworks. Preferred: AWS experience; modern deployment practices (containers, CI/CD). Hands-on experience of Agentic