Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer

Sentara HospitalsNorfolk, VA
Remote

About The Position

The AI Engineer designs, builds, and operationalizes production-grade intelligent services that automate document understanding, power semantic/retrieval-enhanced search, enable conversational/agentic experiences, and integrate AI outcomes into core business systems. Working with product managers, data scientists, DevOps, and SMEs, the engineer helps translate use cases into working, scalable AI systems. As an AI Engineer, you will own the full lifecycle from architecting secure, compliant solutions to deploying and scaling them in production. You will work with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, multi-agent orchestration, and API integrations for EHR, CRM, and member portals all while solving complex problems, ensure HIPAA compliance and Responsible AI practices.

Requirements

  • 3 years in software or data engineering
  • 1 year applying ML/AI in production - model training, deployment, or integration into applications or equivalent experience—open-source contributions, startup work, intensive bootcamps, or research.

Nice To Haves

  • Bachelor’s in computer science, engineering, math, or related technical field.
  • Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer Associate or related certifications.
  • Health Insurance experience.

Responsibilities

  • Designs, builds, and operationalizes production-grade intelligent services.
  • Automates document understanding.
  • Powers semantic/retrieval-enhanced search.
  • Enables conversational/agentic experiences.
  • Integrates AI outcomes into core business systems.
  • Translates use cases into working, scalable AI systems.
  • Owns the full lifecycle from architecting secure, compliant solutions to deploying and scaling them in production.
  • Works with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, multi-agent orchestration, and API integrations for EHR, CRM, and member portals.
  • Solves complex problems.
  • Ensures HIPAA compliance and Responsible AI practices.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision plans
  • Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
  • Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
  • Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
  • Emergency Backup Care
  • Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
  • Life Insurance
  • 401k/403B with Employer Match
  • Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
  • Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
  • Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
  • Pet Insurance
  • Legal Resources Plan
  • Annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
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