AI/ML Machine Learning Engineer

Choa; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta seeks an AI Machine Learning Engineer to bridge data science and production, supporting real-time insights through ML/AI applications. You will partner with clinicians, analytics teams, and data engineers to deliver scalable, compliant solutions that meet clinical and operational goals.

The role emphasizes building and deploying robust models, maintaining ML lifecycle standards, and mentoring teams while advancing enterprise analytics within a healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Experience building production ML pipelines.
• Ability to deploy ML models into production environments.
• Familiarity with healthcare data and HIPAA considerations.

Responsibilities

• Develops and optimizes reproducible ML pipelines for training, validation, and inference.
• Monitors AI/ML systems for high availability and performance.
• Collaborates with clinicians and data engineers to ensure clinically aligned AI solutions.

Skills

Python

SQL

Scala

Spark

Git

CI/CD

APIs

Education

BS in IS/CS/Analytics

MS in IS/DS/ML/CS/Analytics or 4 years industry exp

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure ML

scikit-learn

Job description

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Children’s is one of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals. No matter the role, every member of our team is an essential part of our mission to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow. We’re committed to putting you first, and that commitment is at the heart of our company culture: People first. Children always. Find your next career opportunity and make a difference doing what you love at Children’s.

Job Description

The AI Machine Learning Engineer bridges the gap between data science and implementation. They support data scientists and clinical informaticists in the development, deployment and maintenance of production-grade applications that leverage Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). They partner with clinicians, subject matter experts, analytics developers, researchers, and data engineers to ensure that the delivered solutions provide actionable real-time insights that are in line with the system’s clinical, financial and operational goals. They work closely with analytics leaders and business partners to bring the latest advances in ML and AI systems and processes to advance Children’s overall analytics.

Experience

• 2 years of experience in a Machine Learning Engineering, Data Science or Data Engineering role
• 1 year of experience in implementing machine learning algorithms in a production environment or applying software development lifecycle principles to analytics

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing software and data infrastructure to support the validation and operationalization of predictive models, including tools to support analysis, model. optimization, drift detection, model versioning, deployment and monitoring of model performance and features.
• Experience with model training and inference in common machine learning libraries and frameworks (scikit-learn, H2O, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Datarobot).
• Experience working with healthcare data (payer or provider) in a HIPAA regulated environment.
• Epic certification or badges in Cogito, Cognitive Computing Platform, Chronicles and Interconnect.
• Azure Certifications in Data Fundamentals, AI Fundamentals, Data Science or Data Engineering

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or Analytics.
• Master’s degree in Information Systems, Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or Analytics or four years of industry experience in lieu of Master’s degree

Certification Summary

• No professional certifications required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Familiarity with electronic health records (e.g., Epic, Cerner), ERP (e.g., Workday), or other business systems used at Children’s.
• Familiarity with cloud computing (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) with focus on machine learning and data science tools (Databricks, Snowflake, Azure ML).
• Familiarity with leveraging open-source foundation large language models to build custom domain-specific applications.
• Working knowledge of machine learning concepts such as feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, bias and variance tradeoff, model and data drift, and common metrics to evaluate model performance.
• Knowledge of data structure and data modelling principles and ability to efficiently ingest and process large datasets using Python, SQL, PySpark, and Scala.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies and architecture including API web services.
• Skilled at writing robust, production-grade code for application in predictive analytics (e.g.,Python, R, Java, Scala).
• Ability to reduce complexity and apply coding standards and best practices to data and machine learning pipelines, including code packaging, unit testing, data validation, containerization, automation, and CI/CD.
• Ability to create effective technical documentation and communicate requirements to business partners and vendors.
• Ability to work and provide coaching in agile, iterative frameworks, as well as develop in shared coding environments and collaborate with other developers using source control tools (i.e. Git).

Job Responsibilities

• Works closely with data scientists, data engineers and software engineers to develop and optimize reproducible and reusable pipelines for model training, validation, and inference.
• Monitors and troubleshoots AI and ML systems to ensure high availability, performance and reliability.
• Partners with subject matter experts and other non-technical stakeholders to understand their needs and effectively capture clinical and business system workflows when designing AI solutions.
• Develops and improves Children’s model development lifecycle by defining technical standards while reducing unnecessary complexity.
• Leads code reviews and debugging sessions as well as mentors and develops data scientists and analytics developers to improve code quality.
• Follows technical guidelines and best practices for project management, source control, documentation, and responsible and ethical AI.
• Collaborates with enterprise architects, analytics platform services and other technical leaders to create and maintain an up-to-date machine learning architecture roadmap.
• Partners with researchers on translational projects that are aligned with quality and operational goals, ensuring appropriate technical standards and regulatory compliance are followed.
• Contributes to organizational knowledge by participating in internal knowledge shares and seminars, research conferences, and online learning.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic covered by applicable law.

Primary Location Address

1575 Northeast Expy NE

Job Family

Business Intelligence