Senior AI Engineer - Hands-On AI, Automation & Prototyping

Medline; Northbrook (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Medline seeks a Senior AI Engineer who is a hands-on AI, data, analytics, and automation practitioner embedded in business domains such as Commercial, Operations, or Product. You will identify opportunities, prototype pilots, and deliver practical solutions that drive measurable value.

You will work directly with business teams to translate workflows into proofs of concept, demonstrations, and production-ready automations using Python, SQL, APIs, and low-code tools.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI/automation solutions in a business context.
• Hands-on prototyping, piloting, and productionization of solutions.
• Ability to translate business problems into technical requirements.

Responsibilities

• Embed within a business domain and understand processes, workflows, and challenges.
• Build trusted relationships with business leaders and frontline users for AI-driven problem solving.
• Lead hands-on discovery, define problems, baselines, and success measures.
• Design AI-enabled workflows, agents, copilots, and analytics tools.
• Build working proofs of concept and pilots using real data on approved platforms.
• Test with users, iterate quickly, and assess value, feasibility, and risk.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and Responsible AI.
• Scale and transition solutions to engineering or platform teams as needed.

Skills

AI development

Data analytics

Automation

Python

SQL

APIs

Low-code

AI-assisted coding

Job description

Medline seeks a Senior AI Engineer who is a hands-on AI, data, analytics, and automation practitioner embedded in business domains such as Commercial, Operations, or Product. You will identify opportunities, prototype pilots, and deliver practical solutions that drive measurable value.

You will work directly with business teams to translate workflows into proofs of concept, demonstrations, and production-ready automations using Python, SQL, APIs, and low-code tools.