Director, AI Engineering & Innovation

About the role

The Director, AI Engineering & Innovation provides strategic and technical leadership for WelbeHealth's artificial intelligence and innovation program. This role is responsible for defining and executing an AI product roadmap that directly advances participant outcomes and operational excellence within our PACE model of care.

Responsibilities

• Define, prioritize, and maintain a multi-horizon AI innovation roadmap aligned to WelbeHealth's mission of unlocking the full potential of our most vulnerable seniors.
• Partner with clinical, operations, compliance, and technology leaders to identify high-impact AI opportunities, secure organizational alignment, and champion adoption of AI-powered solutions across the enterprise.
• Evaluate and recommend make-versus-partner decisions across the AI and technology vendor landscape. Lead vendor assessments, contract negotiations, and ongoing governance for third-party AI tools and platforms.
• Continuously monitor the evolving AI landscape — frontier models, agentic frameworks, retrieval systems, and healthcare-specific AI capabilities — and proactively recommend emerging approaches that can improve participant outcomes, operational efficiency, or team productivity.
• Oversee the full development lifecycle for AI use cases — from rapid proof-of-concept through validation, iteration, and production deployment. Maintain accountability for delivery quality, timelines, and technical standards across the AI engineering portfolio.
• Provide hands-on technical direction for AI application architecture, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, agentic workflows, enterprise LLM integration, and secure cloud deployment patterns (primarily Azure).
• Ensure all AI systems and data practices adhere to HIPAA, PHI handling requirements, and the compliance standards unique to healthcare technology. Partner with legal, compliance, and security teams to embed privacy-by-design principles into every AI solution.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required in Computer Science, AI, Computer Engineering, or other relevant field; Master's Degree preferred
• Minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering, applied AI development, or software engineering with a strong AI focus, including at least two (2) years in a technical leadership or people management role.
• Strategic leadership: Demonstrated ability to define and execute a technology or AI product roadmap, align cross-functional stakeholders, translate business and organizational goals into a sequenced portfolio of deliverable initiatives, and present complex technical solutions to non-technical audiences.
• Enterprise LLM & AI application expertise: Proven track record designing, building, and deploying production-grade enterprise AI/LLM solutions on commercial platforms (OpenAI/Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini), including prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, agentic frameworks and workflows, AI assistants, and multi-model orchestration.
• Cloud & infrastructure: Hands-on experience architecting and deploying AI services in secure cloud environments — primarily Azure (Azure OpenAI / Azure AI); AWS a plus — with a focus on scalability, reliability, and cost. Includes Docker, private networking, managed identities, and DevOps/CI/CD pipelines.
• Python & technical depth: Advanced proficiency in Python for AI development, with a strong software engineering background including API and service integration. Ability to engage credibly in hands-on technical design and code review with engineering staff.

Qualifications

• Medical insurance coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Work/life balance - 17 days of personal time off (PTO), 12 holidays observed annually, and 6 sick days
• Comprehensive compensation package including base pay and bonus
• Additional benefits!

Benefits

• We care about our team members. That’s why we offer:
• Medical insurance coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Work/life balance - 17 days of personal time off (PTO), 12 holidays observed annually, and 6 sick days
• 401K savings + match
• Comprehensive compensation package including base pay and bonus
• Additional benefits!

Pay

$168,895.66—$232,231.53 USD

Schedule

N/A