Remote AI ML Engineer for Federal Health IT

Initiate Government Solutions, LLC.; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with match

Education assistance

Job summary

Initiate Government Solutions, LLC. seeks an experienced AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy ML models supporting federal healthcare analytics.

You will fine-tune models with healthcare data, collaborate with data engineers for data preparation, and build scalable pipelines across cloud platforms (VA Lighthouse API, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government) while ensuring compliance with HIPAA, FISMA, and VA security requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Data Science, AI/ML, Math/Stats, Biomedical/Health Informatics, or Engineering.
• 4+ years of experience in software and machine learning engineering.
• Strong knowledge of NLP and transformer models.
• 5+ years proficiency in Python and ML libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face).
• Experience building scalable, cloud-based AI/ML solutions and QA mapping workflows.
• Familiarity with federal AI governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, FedRAMP) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy ML/DL models for clinical decision support and outcome research.
• Fine-tune models on healthcare data including EHRs and imaging.
• Collaborate with data engineers to clean and normalize healthcare data to federal standards (HL7, FHIR).
• Build scalable ML pipelines interfacing with VA Lighthouse API, Azure Gov, and AWS GovCloud.
• Ensure AI/ML solutions meet HIPAA, FISMA, VA information security requirements.
• Document model lifecycle, risk assessments, and validation reports.
• Develop dashboards and visualizations to track performance and outcomes.

Skills

NLP techniques

Transformer models

Python

TensorFlow

PyTorch

HuggingFace Transformers

ML pipelines

MLOps

AI governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/DS/AI/Math

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

AWS SageMaker

Azure Government

Databricks

Apache Spark

Power BI

Tableau

Git/GitHub

Job description

Initiate Government Solutions, LLC. seeks an experienced AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy ML models supporting federal healthcare analytics.

You will fine-tune models with healthcare data, collaborate with data engineers for data preparation, and build scalable pipelines across cloud platforms (VA Lighthouse API, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government) while ensuring compliance with HIPAA, FISMA, and VA security requirements.