Artificial Intelligence Engineer (Full-time Hybrid, Morrisville, NC Based)

Alliance Health•Durham, NC

19d•$107,607 - $137,198•Hybrid

About The Position

The Artificial Intelligence Engineer (AI Engineer) will design, develop, deploy, and integrate machine learning models, AI tools, and other analytics products into Alliance systems and workflows to improve member health, quality of services, and administrative processes. The AI Engineer will help to stand up the foundational platforms and processes that will facilitate development and sustainment of machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities at Alliance now and into the future. This position is full-time hybrid. Selected candidate must come into the Home office in Morrisville on Wednesdays, for business meeting as needed, reside within 50 miles of Morrisville North Carolina.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or a related technical field and three (3) years of experience developing and deploying software, machine learning, and/or artificial intelligence tools in a professional setting, including:
Data wrangling and exploratory analysis of complex, real-world data
Iterative development and evaluation of artificial intelligence and machine learning models
Deployment, integration, and monitoring of AI/ML models and/or third-party AI/ML tools into production environment for internal or external use
Professional experience collaborating with non-technical stakeholders and/or users to define analytics problems based on open-ended business problem statements, interpret data and analyses, scope modeling activities, and evaluate AI or machine learning performance in the context of business outcomes.
At least two (2) years of experience with Python and relevant libraries for data analysis, machine learning, and AI, such as pandas, Keras, and LangChain.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or a related technical field.
Specific experience working with generative AI and large language models (LLMs).
Specific experience with medical claims, electronic health records, and other semi-structured medical data.
Experience using Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Services and/or Databricks (e.g., Mosaic AI, AutoML).

Responsibilities

Collaborate with technical managers and cross-functional teams to design, build, and deploy AI/ML models and solutions to improve care management, patient care decisions, and administrative processes. May include solutions leveraging descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, large-language models (LLMs), generative AI tools (GenAI), or prescriptive tools
Analyze data, such as medical claims, electronic health records, and care management records, to understand patient care and business processes and identify opportunities for AI/ML to improve processes and care outcomes
Develop specific analytics problem statements and modeling objectives from broadly defined care management and administrative use cases
Iteratively develop data pipelines, AI/ML models, and supporting code to address analytics use cases
Evaluate AI/ML models and tools – both internal (developed at Alliance) and external (developed by third parties) – with evaluation pipelines and appropriate metrics consistent with both modeling objectives and the intended health or process outcomes to be achieved with the tool
Collaborate with application development, external vendors, and other internal IT teams to deploy and sustain AI/ML models and tools
Design and implement model/tool monitoring reports or dashboards to disseminate information about model performance and impacts to stakeholders
Collaborate with AI and IT leaders to establish and refine internal processes to govern development, evaluation, deployment, and sustainment of AI/ML tools
Contribute to development of iternal and/or cloud-based infrastructure for development, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring of AI/ML tools
Develop reusable resources, such as internal data processing or modeling libraries and reusable features, for use across AI/ML initiatives
Adhere to all laws, regulations, internal policies, and ethical guidelines related to patient privacy, confidentiality, information security, etc., while developing AI/ML solutions
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including both technical and non-technical personnel, to execute AI/ML initiatives
Communicate with subject matter experts within various functions inside Alliance to understand existing business processes, values, goals, opportunities, and constraints that will guide AI/ML development, integration, and evaluation
Present results of analysis, model/tool evaluations, recommendations, etc., to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Provide honest assessments of models, tools, AI/ML opportunities, and progress toward project goals to supervisors, collaborators, and other stakeholders within Alliance
Support efforts to share knowledge about AI/ML tools, case studies, impacts, and opportunities internally across Alliance and, as deemed appropriate, with outside groups such as through industry group meetings
Stay up to date on relevant AI and ML software, tools, modeling techniques, etc.
Maintain awareness of AI/ML advances and use cases specifically relevant to managed care and other key Alliance functions