Senior AI Application Developer

Beth Israel Lahey Health; United States; On-site; USD 118,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Beth Israel Lahey Health is seeking a Senior AI Application Developer to design, build, test, and support AI-enabled applications across cloud-native and hybrid environments. You will lead AI/GenAI initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable software solutions using Azure, AWS, and GCP.

A bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in software engineering are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering or related technical fields.
• 3-5+ years hands-on software development building cloud-native and AI-enabled apps.
• 1+ years of technical leadership, mentoring, or guiding architecture decisions.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying cloud-based and AI-enabled applications.
• Practical expertise with AI/GenAI, cloud services, and secure by design practices.
• Strong DevOps, observability, and reliability engineering knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Leverages expertise in AI application development and secure development practices to deliver scalable enterprise solutions.
• Designs, develops, and integrates AI-enabled apps, cloud APIs, microservices, and automation workflows across hybrid environments.
• Leads POCs evaluating AI models, cloud services, and automation technologies to guide adoption.
• Collaborates with product, data engineering, cloud engineering, and stakeholders to align features with business goals.
• Gathers and refines requirements ensuring feasibility and alignment with objectives.
• Creates estimates, plans, and schedules for predictable delivery.
• Troubleshoots, debugs, and maintains documentation for apps, data, and cloud components.
• Provides mentorship and technical guidance to junior developers on AI agent integration and architecture.
• Participates in code reviews and architecture discussions for secure, scalable solutions.
• Provides on-call support for critical applications, ensuring reliability and continuous improvement.

Skills

AI application development

Cloud-native architectures

Web frameworks

Microservices

Automation workflows

Mentorship

DevOps

Security by design

Hybrid/cloud environments

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git

Azure DevOps

Power Platform

Job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you’re not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

The Senior AI Application Developer is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and supporting modern software solutions that leverage AI, web, mobile, and distributed microservices technologies, as well as cloud platforms. This role focuses on building advanced AI-enabled applications, intelligent agents, automated data processing workflows, and maintaining or modernizing legacy applications built in Java and .NET. The role also requires providing effective peer support, mentorship, and collaboration across development teams to troubleshoot complex issues and promote best practices in AI application development.

Job Description:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities** including but not limited to:

1. Leveragesexpertisein AI application development,cloud-nativearchitectures, modern web frameworks, and secure development practices to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure enterprise solutions.

2. Designs, develops, and integrates AI-enabled applications, cloud-based APIs, microservices, automation workflows, and data services across hybrid andcloud-nativeenvironments (Azure,AWSandGCP).

3. Leads the design and implementation ofproof-of-concepts(POCs) to evaluate emerging AI models, cloud services, and automation technologies, providing recommendations that guide technology adoption and architecture decisions.

4. Collaborates with cross-functional teamsincluding product, data engineering, cloud engineering, and clinical/operational stakeholdersto design and deliver cloudnative,AI-augmentedapplication features aligned with business goals.

5. Participates in gathering, analyzing, refining, andvalidatingtechnical and functional requirements, ensuring alignment between businessobjectives, technical feasibility, and AIresponsibleuseprinciples.

6. Creates development estimates, plans, and schedules to support predictable delivery and meet project deadlines.

7. Troubleshoots and debugs modern web, cloud, and AI-enabled applications; ensure code quality; andmaintainclear, up-to-date documentation for application, data, and cloud components.

8. Provides mentorship and technical guidance to junior developers, promoting strong engineering practices in AI agent integration, cloud services, microservice architecture, and application development.

9. Collaboratesin code reviews and architecture discussions to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and operationally reliable

10. Provides operational andon-callsupport for critical applications, ensuring system reliability, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement across AI and cloud workloads.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related fieldrequired.

Licensure, Certification & Registration:

N/A

Experience:

5+ years of relevant professional experiencein software engineering or related technical fields.

3-5+ years of hands-on software development experience, including building cloud-native andAI-enabled applications.

1+ years of technical leadership experience, such as mentoring developers, leading small project teams, or guiding architecture decisions.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

Stronghands-onexperience designing, building, and deploying applications in cloud environments(AWS, Azure, or GCP), includingcomputing, storage, networking, identity, and security services.

Practicalexpertiseintegrating or developing AI/GenAI solutions, including use of cloud AI services, LLM-based capabilities, AI agents, or machinelearningassisted features.

Advanced programming and systems skills, with experience building APIs, automation workflows, microservices, andhigh-performanceapplication components.

Deep understanding ofsecurebydesignand cloud security best practices, including identity management, encryption,secretsmanagement, and compliance considerations.

Operational leadership experience, including monitoring, observability, incident response, performance tuning, and reliability engineering for cloud andAI-enabledapplications.

Strong familiarity with DevOps and platform engineering practices, such as Git workflows, CI/CD pipelines,infrastructureascode, automated testing, and container orchestration.

Experience working across hybrid Windows and Linux environments, including automated deployments, system troubleshooting, andcloud-integratedoperations.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Knowledge with Microsoft Power Platform, Azure DevOps, and AWS Bedrock for building, integrating, and automating cloud-based and AI-enabled solutions.

Knowledgeofcontainerization and orchestration technologies such as AWS ECS and Kubernetes.

Knowledgeofdeploying, monitoring, and operating AI applications in production environments.

Pay Range:

$118,000.00 USD - $160,000.00 USD

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geographyof work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients’ lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled