Senior AI Engineer – GenAI for Healthcare Workflows

Cardinal Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 96,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401k plan

PTO

MyFlexPay

Job summary

Cardinal Health – Sonexus Health Pharmacy Services seeks an AI Engineer to design and deliver scalable GenAI solutions for healthcare workflows. You will partner with product, engineering, data, and business teams to ensure secure, compliant AI that improves patient access and outcomes.

Focus areas include agentic AI, orchestration, and LLM-based applications, with emphasis on enterprise-grade reliability, security, and HIPAA-compliant design across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in AI/GenAI.
• Strong Python proficiency and enterprise-grade API development.
• Experience building GenAI/LLM-based applications in enterprise settings.
• Experience deploying AI solutions in Azure and/or GCP.
• Familiarity with HIPAA, PHI handling, and compliant AI design.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and deploy Generative AI applications using techniques such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and vector search
• Build and maintain Python-based APIs and software components to support AI services and ensure scalable, production-grade solutions
• Develop multi-step, agentic workflows for reasoning, task execution, and orchestration using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, and LlamaIndex
• Integrate AI capabilities into healthcare and pharmacy services workflows, including case management, program operations, analytics, and internal knowledge systems
• Deploy, monitor, and optimize GenAI models and pipelines using cloud-native tooling, orchestration frameworks, and MLOps best practices
• Contribute to the AI platform and reference architecture across cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure AI solutions meet security, privacy, and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, PHI handling, responsible AI principles)
• Document designs, patterns, and best practices to support enterprise reuse and long-term platform sustainability
• Evaluate vendor solution architecture, APIs, data flows, identity and access controls, security, scalability, interoperability, and operational supportability
• Participate in technical discovery and proof-of-concept activities, document findings and trade-offs, and provide recommendations for vendor selection, integration approach, and implementation readiness

Skills

Python

GenAI

LLM development

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Azure

GCP

HIPAA security

MLOps

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/AI/related

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Azure Cloud

GCP Cloud

Job description

Cardinal Health – Sonexus Health Pharmacy Services seeks an AI Engineer to design and deliver scalable GenAI solutions for healthcare workflows. You will partner with product, engineering, data, and business teams to ensure secure, compliant AI that improves patient access and outcomes.

Focus areas include agentic AI, orchestration, and LLM-based applications, with emphasis on enterprise-grade reliability, security, and HIPAA-compliant design across cloud environments.