Senior AI Engineer, Healthcare AI Lead (Remote)

NeueHealth; Texas; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NeueHealth is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead design, delivery, and production operation of complex healthcare AI products, spanning traditional software enhanced by AI to AI-native, agentic workflows. You will own prompts, agent behavior, retrieval, model optimization, evaluations, and human-review controls to ensure safe, reliable, observable, and governable high-stakes workflows.

In collaboration with Product, business, clinical, operational, Data Engineering, Platform, and Security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Linguistics, or a related field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• Typically, 5+ years of relevant engineering experience, including ownership of complex production components or technical leadership of feature delivery.
• Hands-on experience delivering and operating production or near-production AI/ML/LLM-enabled applications.
• Strong software engineering expertise in service and data-contract design, testing, CI/CD, observability, debugging, reliability, and operational support.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Java, Scala, C#, TypeScript or a comparable modern language.
• Deep working knowledge of structured outputs, RAG, tool use, evaluations, guardrails, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop design.
• Experience with cloud services and data-intensive systems; ability to collaborate across structured-data products and unstructured-data pipelines.
• Demonstrated self-directed exploration of emerging AI capabilities through independently built prototypes, tools, experiments, or applications.
• Experience translating AI experimentation into production solutions for enterprise or regulated environments, with attention to safety, reliability, security, governance, and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex AI products including agentic workflows, RAG systems, and services.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, and clinical and operational teams.
• Translate stakeholder needs into validated, access-aware AI workflows with clear system behavior, acceptance criteria, risk controls, and delivery trade-offs.
• Design AI workflow and RAG product lines, including ingestion, retrieval quality, attribution, confidence handling, agent tools, and human-review paths.
• Implement workflows with reliable AI control layers and optimize healthcare AI models across prompting, retrieval, reranking, fine-tuning, and model-selection approaches.
• Own healthcare AI evaluation and release frameworks, including adversarial testing, regression thresholds, release gates, and production telemetry.
• Provide senior technical leadership through design and code reviews, incident response, mentoring, and reusable engineering improvements.
• Deliver healthcare AI services using approved cloud capabilities and HITRUST-aligned controls for PHI/PII, security, privacy, auditability, responsible AI, and compliance.

Skills

Programming languages

AI/ML production experience

Observability & reliability

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent practical experience may be considered

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Databricks

AKS/Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Foundry

Job description

NeueHealth is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead design, delivery, and production operation of complex healthcare AI products, spanning traditional software enhanced by AI to AI-native, agentic workflows. You will own prompts, agent behavior, retrieval, model optimization, evaluations, and human-review controls to ensure safe, reliable, observable, and governable high-stakes workflows.

In collaboration with Product, business, clinical, operational, Data Engineering, Platform, and Security