AI Engineer: LLMs & Generative AI for Health

Capital District Physicians Health Plan Inc; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital District Physicians Health Plan Inc is seeking an AI Engineer to join a highly collaborative team building ML/AI models to improve member health outcomes. You will work on LLMs and generative AI, develop data pipelines, and collaborate with data engineers.

You will optimize models, support deployment in CI/CD and MLOps, and mentor others as you progress through Level II/III responsibilities. This role may involve case-by-case remote work within the U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; in lieu of a degree, six (6) years of relevant experience.
• Prior professional, co-op, or internship experience developing AI/ML solutions, or relevant coursework.
• Basic understanding of fundamental ML concepts, algorithms, and statistical techniques.
• Basic experience working with databases, SQL, and data manipulation.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Develops AI/ML solutions to solve business problems and improve member health outcomes, incorporating LLMs and generative AI applications, NLP, optimization and ML models.
• Builds and refines data pipelines for feature engineering and ML model input, ensuring efficient data handling.
• Collaborates with data engineering teams to acquire, clean, and prepare data for model training.
• Supports model evaluation, testing, and performance monitoring in pre-production environments.
• Works within cloud-based ML platforms to develop and optimize AI models.
• Understands ML Operations principles and collaborates with CI/CD and ML Ops engineers for deployment and monitoring.
• Participates in peer code reviews and follows best practices for software development in AI.
• Stays up to date with industry trends in AI/ML.
• Develops and refines prompt engineering techniques for optimizing interactions with LLMs.

Skills

ML concepts

Problem solving

Learning mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree or 6 years experience

Tools

Databricks

AWS SageMaker

Azure ML

Spark

Job description

Capital District Physicians Health Plan Inc is seeking an AI Engineer to join a highly collaborative team building ML/AI models to improve member health outcomes. You will work on LLMs and generative AI, develop data pipelines, and collaborate with data engineers.

You will optimize models, support deployment in CI/CD and MLOps, and mentor others as you progress through Level II/III responsibilities. This role may involve case-by-case remote work within the U.S.