AI Engineer - AIT

Boston Children's Hospital; Westwood (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedules

Health, vision, and dental insurance

Child care subsidies

Tuition and certification reimburse

Job summary

Boston Children's Hospital seeks an AI Scientist to develop AI-driven solutions, ML models, LLMs, and agentic architectures to analyze clinical data and support decision-making across hospital workflows.

The role focuses on designing predictive and generative models, building production AI pipelines, governance, and collaboration with clinicians, researchers, and operations to improve outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience designing AI-driven solutions using ML, LLMs, and agentic architectures.
• Experience building predictive and generative models for clinical or research use.
• Experience developing agentic AI systems that reason, plan, and interact with data sources and APIs.
• Experience applying NLP, LLMs, and RAG to unstructured clinical documentation.
• Experience integrating data from multiple sources including EHR systems.
• Experience building and maintaining production AI pipelines with MLOps practices.
• Experience implementing AI governance, monitoring, and safe deployment practices.
• Experience developing APIs, services, and data pipelines for hospital systems.
• Experience creating dashboards and visualizations for diverse stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating across clinical, operational, and research teams.

Responsibilities

• Apply NLP, LLMs, and RAG to extract insights from unstructured clinical documentation.
• Integrate and prepare data from multiple sources, including EHR systems.
• Build and maintain production AI pipelines, including model training, validation, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Implement AI governance, model monitoring, and explainability for safe deployment.
• Develop APIs, services, and data pipelines to integrate AI models with hospital applications.
• Create dashboards, visualizations, and reports to communicate insights to clinicians and leaders.
• Collaborate with clinicians, operational leaders, and researchers to identify AI opportunities to improve workflows.
• Support research initiatives, publications, and innovation programs involving AI.

Skills

AI/ML solution design

NLP & LLMs

Agentic AI architectures

Data integration across sources

Dashboarding & reporting

Collaboration with clinicians

Education

Master's or PhD in Computer Science / AI / Biomedical Informatics

Tools

EPIC EHR

Python

MLOps platforms

APIs

Job description

Position Summary

Develop AI-driven solutions using machine learning, large language models, and agentic AI architectures to analyze data and support decision-making. Design predictive and generative models for applications that support analysis and agentic knowledge systems. Develop agentic AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, and interacting with data sources, APIs, and knowledge systems to support workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply natural language processing (NLP), LLMs, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to extract insights from unstructured clinical documentation, including records, operative notes, and evaluations.
• Integrate and prepare data from multiple sources, including EHR systems such as EPIC.
• Build and maintain production AI pipelines, including model training, validation, deployment, and lifecycle management using modern MLOps practices.
• Implement AI governance and model monitoring, including performance tracking, bias detection, model drift monitoring, and explainability to support safe AI deployment.
• Develop APIs, services, and data pipelines that allow AI models and agent-based systems to integrate with existing hospital applications and analytics platforms.
• Create dashboards, visualizations, and analytical reports to communicate insights and model outputs to clinicians, operational leaders, and hospital leadership.
• Collaborate with clinicians, operational leaders, and researchers to identify opportunities where AI and advanced analytics can improve workflows, outcomes, and operational performance.
• Support research initiatives, publications, and innovation programs involving AI applications as needed.

Experience Required

• Experience developing AI-driven solutions using machine learning, large language models, and agentic AI architectures.
• Experience designing predictive and generative models.
• Experience building agentic AI systems that reason, plan, and interact with data sources, APIs, and knowledge systems.
• Experience applying NLP, LLMs, and RAG to unstructured clinical documentation.
• Experience integrating data from multiple sources, including EHR systems.
• Experience building and maintaining production AI pipelines and using MLOps practices.
• Experience implementing AI governance, model monitoring, and safe deployment practices.
• Experience developing APIs, services, and data pipelines for integration with hospital systems.
• Experience creating dashboards, visualizations, and analytical reports for varied stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating across clinical, operational, and research teams.
• Preferred background in Computer Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Informatics, or a related technical field.

The posted pay range is Boston Children's reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.

Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.