Senior AI Engineer

USA-MiniMed Distribution Corp. 1018; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

MiniMed is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead hands-on AI capabilities, from prototyping to initial production and monitoring. You will work on the MIA stack and integrate with enterprise systems like Salesforce and SAP, while upholding safety, privacy, and regulatory requirements in a medical-device context.

You will own design patterns, guide other engineers, and collaborate with Product to choose projects that deliver real business value.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
• Demonstrated delivery of AI/ML systems to production with end-to-end ownership.
• Strong system design and ownership from prototype through deployment.
• Experience leading engineers and reviewing their work.
• Familiarity with HIPAA, audit, and validation in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Prototype fast and demonstrate proof of life for AI/ML models and tools using real data and workflows.
• Take models to production, deploy on the MIA stack, ensure reliability and maintainability with guardrails.
• Integrate AI capabilities into enterprise systems—APIs, SSO/OAuth, Salesforce, SAP, data pipelines.
• Set reusable patterns for design, tool-calling, retrieval, and evaluation; gate reviews.
• Feed learnings back to the platform to improve future deployments and tooling.
• Work with Product Manager to decide what to build and when to stop.
• Build for a regulated environment with auditability and human-in-the-loop where required.

Skills

AI system design

Production-grade deployment

Stakeholder communication

Databricks / LangGraph / LangSmith

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Advanced degree (MS/PhD) with 2+ years experience

Tools

Databricks

LangGraph

LangSmith

Vector databases

RAG retrieval

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 11 Nov 2026

At MiniMed, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, while helping make a difference in the lives of people living with diabetes around the globe. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation for a more connected, compassionate world.

About the Role

MiniMed is building a lean, high-leverage AI & Data Science team. We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer who builds AI capabilities hands-on and sets the standard the rest of the team builds to.

Responsibilities

• Prototype fast. Demonstrate "proof of life" for AI/ML models, agents, and tools against real MiniMed business problems, working from the business's actual data and workflows rather than a sanitized sandbox.
• Take it to production and drive adoption. Build, evaluate, and deploy on the MIA stack (Databricks, LangGraph/LangSmith, enterprise agent platforms), applying evaluation-driven development, guardrails, and deployment patterns so what ships is reliable, auditable, and maintainable. You own the capability from prototype through initial production release and its first monitoring cycle - measured by real adoption and business value, not just a stable deployment - then hand off to Model Operations for steady-state run.
• Integrate into the enterprise environment. Wire agents and models into the surrounding systems - APIs, identity and access (SSO/SAML/OAuth), systems of record such as Salesforce and SAP, and enterprise data pipelines - so capabilities work against real, messy production systems rather than in isolation.
• Set the technical standard. Establish reusable patterns for agent design, tool‑calling, retrieval, and evaluation harnesses; review and quality‑gate the work of other engineers on the team so the bar holds without a manager in the loop.
• Feed learnings back to the platform. Turn what you learn in the field into improvements to the MIA platform, shared tooling, and reusable‑pattern roadmap, so each deployment makes the next one faster.
• Self‑direct against outcomes. Partner with the Product Manager, AI & Data Science to choose what to build and when to stop, without needing the problem pre‑decomposed for you.
• Build for a regulated environment. Uphold the safety, privacy, and compliance requirements of a medical‑device context, including auditability and human‑in‑the‑loop where required.

Required Knowledge and Experience

Requires a Bachelor's degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.

Nice to Have

• Demonstrated delivery of LLM‑powered systems or ML models to production - not prototypes, evaluations, or internal demos alone.
• Strong system design skills and end‑to‑end ownership from prototype through production deployment.
• Experience technically leading or directing other engineers, including reviewing their work.
• Strong stakeholder‑facing communication - able to scope ambiguous problems with business partners and explain technical trade‑offs (latency, cost, model risk) to non‑technical leaders.
• Hands‑on with Databricks, LangGraph, LangSmith, vector databases, and managed RAG/retrieval.
• Forward‑deployed or embedded engineering experience - building AI systems from inside the business's real data, workflows, and constraints.
• Experience integrating AI or software systems into complex enterprise environments - APIs, identity/auth, systems of record (e.g., Salesforce, SAP), and data pipelines.
• Comfort operating within a formal MLOps discipline, including a defined handoff to a model operations function.
• Experience in a regulated industry (medical device, healthcare, financial services); familiarity with HIPAA, audit, and validation requirements.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also requi