Senior Analyst, AI Engineer

About the role

The Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence at Cardinal Health is dedicated to leveraging technology to enhance healthcare outcomes. We foster a collaborative environment where innovation and continuous learning drive success.

Responsibilities

• GCP AI Development: Build and configure GenAI applications using the Vertex AI SDK and Gemini model family.
• Agentic Workflows: Assist in building AI agents by setting up Vertex AI Extension calls, defining function schemas for Gemini tool-use, and managing agent memory/reasoning loops.
• Data & Vector Pipelines: Support the ingestion of unstructured enterprise data into Vertex AI Vector Search or BigQuery to power retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and grounding mechanisms.
• Prompt Engineering & Evaluation: Design, test, and iterate on system instructions using Vertex AI's evaluation tools to ensure accuracy, safety, and eliminate hallucinations.
• Cloud Integration: Deploy and host lightweight AI APIs, agent endpoints, or microservices using Cloud Run or Cloud Functions.
• Observability & Debugging: Monitor and debug agent execution paths and API latency using Google Cloud Logging and Cloud Trace.
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest advancements in GenAI and contribute innovative ideas, open-source frameworks, and tools to the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 1+ years of experience in Generative AI, RAG implementation, re-ranking, vector DB, embeddings, and Machine Learning.
• Knowledge of clinical domain and datasets is a plus.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong mathematical and statistical skills.
• Experience in the Healthcare industry and knowledge of clinical data.

Benefits

Cardinal Health offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, a health savings account (HSA), a 401(k) savings plan, flexible spending accounts (FSAs), short- and long-term disability coverage, and more. The company also provides work-life resources, including parental leave and healthy lifestyle programs.