Product Engineer - AI/ML

LE0010 Stanford Health Care; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanford Health Care is seeking a Product Engineer – AI/ML to bridge strategy, hands-on development, and deployed AI delivery. You’ll work with clinicians to identify challenges, prototype solutions, and drive 0→1 implementation with production-grade code, AI workflows, and governance integration.

You will collaborate with Data Scientists and Platform Engineers to ensure scalable, compliant AI that delivers measurable impact across care delivery and operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Master’s degree preferred.
• 3–5+ years of progressive experience in data science, software engineering, applied AI engineering, or technical product development.
• Experience in healthcare, health tech, or complex regulated enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with operational and clinical teams to identify root-cause challenges.
• Design, build, and iterate on prototypes using Python, APIs, LLM orchestration frameworks, and retrieval systems.
• Evaluate bottlenecks to determine automation, rule-based logic, or generative AI approaches.
• Balance model accuracy, latency, maintainability, and operational costs.
• Integrate prototypes with health system data stores, APIs, and workflow tools.
• Collaborate with Data Science to pass solutions through evaluation harnesses.
• Contribute to test suites to mitigate model hallucinations and errors.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA and institutional AI governance standards.
• Transition validated prototypes to enterprise-grade platforms.

Skills

Communication

Healthcare informatics

Program management

Python

SQL

REST APIs

AI frameworks

Vector databases

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

REST APIs

Web services

RAG

Foundation model APIs

AI orchestration frameworks

Vector databases

Job description

If you're ready to be part of our legacy of hope and innovation, we encourage you to take the first step and explore our current job openings. Your best is waiting to be discovered. Day - 08 Hour (United States of America) This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview The Product Engineer – AI/ML bridges technical strategy, hands-on software development, and applied AI delivery. Operating in a forward-deployed capacity, this role works directly with operational and clinical stakeholders to uncover root challenges, prototype solutions, and build high-value AI capabilities. Unlike traditional product or project management roles focused solely on static specifications, the Product Engineer – AI/ML maintains end-to-end execution ownership—writing production-capable code, configuring AI model workflows (such as RAG and foundation APIs), and driving initial 0→1 implementation. Working alongside Data Scientists and Core Platform Engineering this role ensures AI solutions deliver measurable impact.

Locations

Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Partner directly with operational and clinical teams to probe and identify root-cause challenges rather than passively receiving feature requests.
• Design, build, and iterate on working prototypes using programming languages such as Python, modern APIs, LLM orchestration frameworks, and retrieval systems.
• Evaluate operational bottlenecks to determine whether simple automation, rule-based logic, or generative AI models represent the best technical approach.
• Balance technical tradeoffs across model accuracy, execution latency, maintainability, and operational inference costs.
• Integrate prototypes with health system data stores, enterprise APIs, and operational workflow tools.
• Collaborate with Data Science teammates to pass solutions through formal evaluation harnesses prior to enterprise deployment.
• Participate in constructing test suites to measure and mitigate model hallucinations, errors of omission, and factual inaccuracies.
• Ensure alignment with healthcare data privacy policies, HIPAA regulations, and institutional AI governance standards.
• Partner with Data and Software Engineers to transition validated prototypes to enterprise-grade platforms.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Master’s degree preferred.

Experience Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of progressive experience in data science, software engineering, applied AI engineering, or technical product development.
• Experience working in healthcare, health tech, or complex regulated enterprise environments.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of healthcare informatics related technologies and standards.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficiency in Python and SQL; experience working with REST APIs, web services, and modern development workflows.
• Hands-on experience with foundation model APIs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks.
• Familiarity with enterprise data structures, cloud data platforms, and data privacy governance.
• Strong ability to analyze operational workflows, probe for root causes, and translate business needs into technical solutions.

Physical Demands and Work Conditions

Blood Borne Pathogens Category II - Tasks that involve NO exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues, but employment may require performing unplanned Category I tasks

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery. You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective: Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer

Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale

Generally starting at $81.59 - $108.12 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage. At Stanford Health Care, we seek to provide patients with the very best in diagnosis and treatment, with outstanding quality, compassion and coordination. With an unmatched track record of scientific discovery, technological innovation and translational medicine, Stanford Medicine physicians are pioneering leading edge therapies today that will change the way health care is delivered tomorrow. As part of our spirit of discovery, we also leverage our deep relationships with luminary Silicon Valley companies to develop new ways to deliver preeminent patient care. Learn about our awards and significant events.