Senior AI Engineer

Montefiore Health System; Plaza (ND); On-site; USD 184,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Montefiore Health System in Yonkers, NY, seeks a Senior AI Engineer to advance our data and analytics programs. You will design, deploy, and scale ML/AI solutions across predictive, generative, and NLP use cases to improve patient care and operational efficiency.

You'll lead cross-functional teams, implement MLOps practices, and ensure governance, reliability, and security of AI systems in production while mentoring junior engineers in a fast-paced healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• BS Data Analytics required.
• 10+ years of design, development, and support for ML/AI platforms.
• Strong knowledge of statistical methods and principles.
• Experience building and deploying ML models at scale and NLP solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and maintenance of ML/AI platforms.
• Propose, design, develop and implement cloud-based AI solutions for scalable systems.
• Drive MLOps practices, standards and principles.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet governance standards for AI.
• Identify emerging technologies to drive ML/AI innovation.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance of AI/ML systems in production.
• Mentor staff and foster an innovative culture.

Skills

Python & ML libraries

LLMs / Generative AI

ML model deployment

MLOps

Cloud AI solutions

Education

BS Data Analytics

Tools

H2O

Snowflake Cortex

Snowflake

EPIC

Job description

City/State:

Yonkers, New York

Grant Funded:

No

Department:

D&A - Data & Analytics

Work Shift:

Day

Work Days:

MON-FRI

Scheduled Hours:

9 AM-5:30 PM

Scheduled Daily Hours:

7.5 HOURS

Pay Range:

$184,000.00-$230,000.00

Montefiore is ranked among the top hospitals nationally and regionally by U.S. News & World Report. For more than 100 years we have been innovating new treatments, procedures, and approaches to patient care, producing stellar outcomes and raising the bar for academic medical centers in the region and around the world.

Our work to improve health outcomes in underserved communities is unparalleled in the United States. Our workforce is among the most diverse in the US: Montefiore associates speak 60+ languages. As Montefiore has built paths to deliver lifesaving health outcomes to underserved communities, we are looking to the future of being a data driven organization and tech-enabled care delivery to create better experiences for patients, providers, and operations teams.

Montefiore is actively investing in its data & analytics driven solutions as a new system-level priority, and we are seeking data experts who are excited to create a tangible impact with the healthcare system. This role is also critical to scaling our data and insights capabilities, empowering teams with actionable insights, and supporting our mission to improve Patient healthcare.

Job Summary

The position of Senior AI Engineer within the Data and Analytics function leverages their skills across Predictive, Generative, and Agentic AI solutions to improve health for a diverse community and redesign the healthcare experiences. You have the opportunity to work with complex AI/ML/LLM-based solutions in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving landscape, answering critical business and clinical questions. This role is critical to scaling our analytics capabilities, empowering teams with actionable insights, and supporting our mission to improve Patient healthcare. You will be part of our rapidly evolving high-performing team that is directly focused on tangible solutions that improve patient access, reduce clinician burnout, create optimal operations, and thoughtfully deploy data & analytics solutions.

Essential Functions

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of ML/AI related platforms and products.
• Propose, design, develop and implement cloud-based AI solutions that ensure the agility, flexibility, and scalability of our systems.
• Drive technical design discussions and provide guidance to team members on MLOps best practices, standards and principles.
• Collaborate with and lead cross-functional teams to drive the development of new features and products, ensuring they meet the Montefiore's AI governance standards and policies.
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and trends that can drive ML/AI innovation and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our engineering processes.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance of AI/ML systems in production environments.
• Demonstrate high ownership and accountability for project deliverables in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Quickly learn and adapt to new AI/ML technological concepts and tools as needed.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative culture, set clear goals, and mentor staff

Qualifications

• BS Data Analytics
• 10+ years Design, development, and support for ML/AI related platforms and products
• Solid understanding of statistical methods and principles
• Build and Deploy a diverse set of ML models (GLM, GBM, Neural Networks) and NLP solutions at scale.
• Knowledge in Python and relevant ML libraries, out-of-the box LLMs, Generative AI solutions and LLMOps
• Automation of ML workflows and pipelines
• Experience in AI managed services like H20, Snowflake Cortex etc.
• Experience in Snowflake • Knowledge in healthcare preferably in a provider domain
• Experience with clinical data platforms like EPIC etc. (High proficiency)

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Montefiore Health System, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer. Montefiore Health System, Inc. will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.