Sr Engineer, AI Innovations

About the Role

The Senior Engineer, AI Innovations provides subject matter expertise within PDS Health Innovations, driving artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives through advanced problem-solving, technical depth, and hands-on execution. This position evaluates AI/ML technology alternatives and ensures alignment with PDS Health's standards and business goals. The Senior Engineer, AI Innovations is responsible for designing, developing, and deploying AI/ML-driven solutions across PDS Health's clinical and operational environments. This role collaborates across teams, mentors junior engineers, and interfaces with business leaders to translate requirements into scalable AI/ML solutions while ensuring compliance with HIPAA, data governance policies, and AI ethics standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI/ML system reliability, performance optimization, and infrastructure capacity planning.
• Design and implement AI/ML technical systems with focus on reliability, security, and scalability.
• Mentor others in MLOPs practices, including automation of AI workflows and model deployment pipelines.
• Drive incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for AI/ML production systems.
• Design model monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Lead implementation and maintain AI specific security protocols and best practices.
• Optimize computational resource utilization for AI/ML workloads.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to integrate AI/ML capabilities.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging AI/ML technologies and frameworks.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements for AI systems.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field. In lieu of degree, +5 years of professional experience is required.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in AI/ML engineering, MLOPs, or related fields.
• Certifications such as AWS Machine Learning Specialty, Google ML Engineer, or Azure AI Engineer.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in the healthcare (medical or dental industry), retail, or other large enterprise environments.
• Experience developing FDA compliant technical documentation for AI/ML systems.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Advanced problem-solving for complex AI/ML challenges.
• Strong mentoring and technical leadership abilities.
• Strategic thinking with hands-on AI/ML development expertise.
• Ability to influence AI/ML adoption decisions across teams.
• Expertise in AI/ML lifecycle management and deployment.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and collaboration skills.
• Proficient in evaluating AI/ML technologies and risk assessment.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 401K
• Paid time to volunteer in your local community

Pay

$150,000.00-$194,000.00 / Annually