Staff AI Engineer: Enterprise AI Platform & Agents

novabio; Waltham (MA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Nova Biomedical is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead and contribute hands-on to the Data & AI function, designing, building, and operationalizing AI-enabled applications at enterprise scale. You will set technical direction for AI engineering and platform patterns, partner with data, IT, security, and business teams, and ensure strong architecture, observability, and secure handoffs from inception.

You will mentor engineers and delivery partners while staying close to critical use cases,

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on experience building AI, ML, automation, data, or modern software apps in enterprise environments.
• Strong Python, APIs, cloud services, integration, CI/CD concepts, and version control.
• Deep familiarity with LLMs, RAG patterns, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and evaluation.
• Experience designing or operating AI platform capabilities like model gateways, agent platforms, and evaluation pipelines.
• Ability to make sound architecture choices across build vs. buy, prototype vs production, and centralized vs use-case specific implementations.
• Experience documenting technical decisions, runbooks, and support models for internal teams.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across business, technical, security, data, and quality stakeholders.
• Ability to mentor while remaining hands-on with code, integration, testing, and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, build, deployment, and support of AI agents, copilots, RAG apps, tool-calling workflows, and AI-enabled automations.
• Define reusable AI engineering patterns across prompt design, retrieval, embeddings, vector stores, orchestration, API integration, evaluation, and guardrails.
• Develop and evolve AI platform components such as agent orchestration services, model gateway patterns, and retrieval services.
• Design platform controls for model access, telemetry, cost management, audit logging, and guardrails for enterprise reuse.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, data, IT, quality, and business stakeholders to meet enterprise requirements.
• Turn prototypes into production-ready services with architecture, deployment steps, ownership, monitoring, and support.

Skills

Python

LLMs

System architecture

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Databricks

Power Platform

CI/CD

Git

MLOps

Kubernetes

ServiceNow

Job description

Nova Biomedical is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead and contribute hands-on to the Data & AI function, designing, building, and operationalizing AI-enabled applications at enterprise scale. You will set technical direction for AI engineering and platform patterns, partner with data, IT, security, and business teams, and ensure strong architecture, observability, and secure handoffs from inception.

You will mentor engineers and delivery partners while staying close to critical use cases,