Senior Applied AI Engineer (Remote) - Production ML

Post Acute Analytics Inc.; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

401K

Health, dental, disability insurance

Flexible schedule and time off

Career growth platform

Job summary

Post Acute Analytics Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Science team and own a production clinical AI model end to end.

You will work at the intersection of production software engineering and applied AI, ensuring model accuracy, releases, and production behavior in a fast-paced environment. You will collaborate with engineers, clinicians, and product stakeholders, evaluate new foundation models, and maintain the runtime inference infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python skills building and maintaining production services and pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience designing evaluations for AI systems.
• Practical depth in prompt and context engineering.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
• Experience with event-driven architecture patterns (Kafka or similar).

Responsibilities

• Own a production clinical AI model end to end: iteration, releases, accuracy, and production incident response.
• Collaborate with other engineers and clinical team members to design and maintain the evaluation systems that prove model correctness.
• Partner directly with our clinical team on model audits and requirements, translating clinical rules into system behavior and explaining model output to clinical and product stakeholders.
• Evaluate and integrate new foundation models, including open-weight alternatives, balancing accuracy against latency and cost.
• Act as the internal escalation point when a client or clinician reports issues or has questions about a model.
• Maintain the runtime inference infrastructure in partnership with other engineers.
• Collaborate within an Agile team, engaging in sprint planning, daily standups, backlog refinement, code review, and design discussions.

Skills

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Tools

SQL

Job description

Post Acute Analytics Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Science team and own a production clinical AI model end to end.

You will work at the intersection of production software engineering and applied AI, ensuring model accuracy, releases, and production behavior in a fast-paced environment. You will collaborate with engineers, clinicians, and product stakeholders, evaluate new foundation models, and maintain the runtime inference infrastructure.