Senior AI Engineer — HPC, Secure LLMs & Multi-Modal ML

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 86,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, seeks a Senior AI Engineer to lead development of advanced AI models including LLMs, agentic systems, and multi-modal foundation models, and to secure the computational infrastructure that powers them.

This hands-on, high-ownership software role involves evaluating, fine-tuning, deploying, and benchmarking AI models, designing safety guardrails, safeguarding data privacy, and optimizing GPU/HPC resource allocation as technologies evolve.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, data science, information technology or related field required.
• PhD degree in data science, computer science, computer engineering, information technology or related field preferred.
• Strong background in deep learning frameworks and ML techniques is required.

Responsibilities

• Assists in evaluating and implementing AI-enabled services on high-performance AI computing platforms.
• Collaborates with scientists and IS professionals to design, develop, and deploy AI solutions and services.
• Develops and benchmarks AI models, demonstrating ownership beyond prototyping.

Skills

Deep learning

Distributed training

Model evaluation

Leadership

Education

Master’s degree

PhD preferred

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

Slurm

CUDA

Job description

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, seeks a Senior AI Engineer to lead development of advanced AI models including LLMs, agentic systems, and multi-modal foundation models, and to secure the computational infrastructure that powers them.

This hands-on, high-ownership software role involves evaluating, fine-tuning, deploying, and benchmarking AI models, designing safety guardrails, safeguarding data privacy, and optimizing GPU/HPC resource allocation as technologies evolve.