AI Software Engineer II — Research Impact

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 78,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Inc.

is seeking a Software Developer II with experience in AI to build intelligent, scalable AI solutions that support pediatric research and discovery. You will design and implement AI-enabled software, pipelines, and microservices, collaborating with researchers and engineers to ensure models are performant, interpretable, and production-ready in a research healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum education: Bachelor's degree in CS, data science, information science, business, or related field.
• 2+ years IT experience with SDLC methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, CI/CD).
• Experience with LLMs and vector databases; knowledge of RAG architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI solutions (e.g., NLP pipelines, LLM-powered features).
• Build and maintain data pipelines for training, evaluation, and inference.
• Integrate AI models into production systems via APIs and microservices.
• Collaborate with engineers and data scientists to ensure clean architecture.
• Monitor deployed models for drift, retraining, and performance optimization.
• Stay current with AI advancements and assess practical applications.

Skills

LLMs experience

NLP

RAG architectures

Deep learning

Recommendation systems

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Pinecone

Weaviate

FAISS

Job description

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Inc.

is seeking a Software Developer II with experience in AI to build intelligent, scalable AI solutions that support pediatric research and discovery. You will design and implement AI-enabled software, pipelines, and microservices, collaborating with researchers and engineers to ensure models are performant, interpretable, and production-ready in a research healthcare setting.