Senior AI Engineer: Secure HPC & LLM Systems

Thecentermemphis; Memphis, Northern (TN, KY); Hybrid; 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 advanced AI models and secure HPC infrastructure.

This hands-on, onsite role focuses on evaluating, fine-tuning, deploying, and benchmarking models, and enforcing safety guardrails for agentic systems. You will collaborate with image data scientists and software engineers, optimize GPU/HPC resources, and ensure data security for sensitive research data.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing and deploying large-scale AI/ML systems.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (TF, PyTorch) required.
• Familiar with LLMs and multi-modal models.
• Strong security, privacy, and data governance practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and deployment of AI solutions on HPC.
• Evaluate, fine-tune, benchmark AI models.
• Implement safety guardrails and sandboxing for agentic systems.
• Collaborate with scientists and IS to deliver AI-enabled services.
• Develop architecture roadmaps and documents.

Skills

Large-scale AI

LLMs

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Keras

PEFT/LoRA

Slurm

VLLM

TensorRT-LLM

Triton

Education

Master's degree

PhD preferred

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Keras

Slurm

vLLM

TensorRT-LLM

Triton

Job description

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN seeks a Senior AI Engineer to lead advanced AI models and secure HPC infrastructure.

This hands-on, onsite role focuses on evaluating, fine-tuning, deploying, and benchmarking models, and enforcing safety guardrails for agentic systems. You will collaborate with image data scientists and software engineers, optimize GPU/HPC resources, and ensure data security for sensitive research data.