Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer - Remote
About The Position
Sentara is hiring an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer! This position is fully remote! 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 (Required)
- 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. (Required)
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s in computer science, engineering, math, or related technical field. (Preferred)
- Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer Associate or related (Preferred)
- Health Insurance experience (Preferred)
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Translates use cases into working, scalable AI systems with product managers, data scientists, DevOps, and SMEs.
- 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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
