Healthcare AI Engineer: Production ML & LLMs

St Vincent's Health Australia Limited; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working Melbourne

Competitive salary packaging

Discounted private health insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Fitness Passport access

Job summary

St Vincent’s Health Australia is seeking a senior AI Engineer to deliver production AI solutions in healthcare. You will join the AI Delivery team within Data, Analytics, AI & Interoperability and work on moving prototypes to governed production using MCP, Databricks Mosaic AI Gateway, and Azure OpenAI.

You will bring 5+ years in software, data, or ML engineering, with hands-on Python and API development, experience in orchestration frameworks, and a passion for reliable, secure healthcare AI

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ professional experience in software, data or machine learning engineering.
• At least 2 years building AI solutions in production environments.
• Advanced Python engineering with other languages such as TypeScript/JavaScript, C# or Java.
• Proven experience integrating large language model APIs (Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI).
• Hands‑on experience building agentic AI solutions with orchestration frameworks and MCP.
• Experience with RAG solutions and vector databases or indexes.

Responsibilities

• Build, test and deploy production AI solutions following design standards.
• Design agentic AI solutions using MCP, tool calls, memory and human‑in‑the‑loop controls.
• Integrate LLMs into clinical and operational workflows via secure APIs.
• Work on CDAI platform and Databricks lakehouse exposure through API gateway.
• Prepare data for model development, evaluation and retrieval.
• Develop ML models and ML‑Ops across full lifecycle with tracking and observability.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

C#

SQL

APIs

ML engineering

LLM APIs

Data wrangling

ML ops

Tools

Databricks

MLflow

Unity Catalog

Vector databases

Hugging Face

Job description

St Vincent’s Health Australia is seeking a senior AI Engineer to deliver production AI solutions in healthcare. You will join the AI Delivery team within Data, Analytics, AI & Interoperability and work on moving prototypes to governed production using MCP, Databricks Mosaic AI Gateway, and Azure OpenAI.

You will bring 5+ years in software, data, or ML engineering, with hands-on Python and API development, experience in orchestration frameworks, and a passion for reliable, secure healthcare AI