Senior AI Engineer, Enterprise Platform & Automation

Nova Biomedical; Waltham (MA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Nova Biomedical seeks a Staff AI Engineer to lead the design, build, and operation of enterprise‑scale AI-enabled applications and platform capabilities within the Data & AI function. You will mentor engineers, define reusable patterns, and ensure secure, auditable delivery across teams.

You will collaborate with architecture, security, data, and ops teams to turn prototypes into production services, with strong emphasis on governance, observability, and measurable enterprise impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience building AI, ML, automation, data, or modern software applications in enterprise environments.
• Strong Python skills with API, cloud services, CI/CD concepts, and version control.
• Deep familiarity with LLMs, RAG patterns, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, deployment, and support of AI agents, copilots, RAG applications, tool-calling workflows, and AI-enabled workflow automations.
• Define and implement reusable AI engineering patterns across prompt design, retrieval strategies, embeddings, vector stores, orchestration, API integration, evaluation, guardrails, logging, monitoring, and incident response.
• Build and evolve shared AI platform components including agent orchestration services, model gateway patterns, retrieval services, prompt and policy management, evaluation frameworks, secrets handling, deployment templates, and reusable integration libraries.
• Design platform controls for model access, environment separation, telemetry, cost management, usage tracking, audit logging, and responsible AI guardrails to support safe reuse across teams.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, security, data engineering, analytics, IT operations, quality, and business stakeholders to confirm solutions meet enterprise requirements before scaling.
• Convert prototypes into production-ready services with documented architecture, deployment steps, ownership model, monitoring approach, and support procedures.
• Establish evaluation harnesses that test factuality, retrieval quality, safety behaviors, workflow completion, and regression risk across releases.
• Contribute to Nova's AI control plane and agent ecosystem by building repeatable integration patterns with enterprise systems, data platforms, business applications, and automation tools.
• Provide technical leadership to internal engineers and implementation partners, including code review, design review, reusable templates, and implementation playbooks.
• Balance speed and governance by delivering business-useful solutions while maintaining security, privacy, auditability, and maintainability.

Skills

Python

LLMs

RAG patterns

Embeddings

Vector databases

Prompt engineering

Agent workflows

Workflow orchestration

Model evaluation

Mentorship

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Microsoft Azure

Power Platform

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

AWS AI services

Microsoft 365

Salesforce

SAP

ServiceNow

Job description

Nova Biomedical seeks a Staff AI Engineer to lead the design, build, and operation of enterprise‑scale AI-enabled applications and platform capabilities within the Data & AI function. You will mentor engineers, define reusable patterns, and ensure secure, auditable delivery across teams.

You will collaborate with architecture, security, data, and ops teams to turn prototypes into production services, with strong emphasis on governance, observability, and measurable enterprise impact.