Senior Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer - Remote
About The Position
Sentara is hiring a Senior AI Engineer! This position is fully remote. The Senior AI Engineer drives end-to-end delivery of production AI platforms—leading solution architecture, orchestrating model pipelines, designing multi-agent workflows, and creating reusable SDKs and frameworks. They work across product, engineering, security, and governance teams to ensure AI systems are scalable, observable, cost-efficient, and compliant. Senior Engineers are responsible for defining design patterns, optimizing operational pipelines, and enabling internal reuse of proven solutions. 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
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics/Statistics, or related field or equivalent practical experience delivering production AI/ML systems
- 5 years in production-grade AI/ML
- 3 years building and operating production AI/ML systems - training, deployment, monitoring
- One year GenAI/LLM or RAG solution delivered to production or equivalent experience open-source contributions, or startups
Nice To Haves
- Master’s or equivalent experience
- Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect, or ML specialty credentials
Responsibilities
- Drives end-to-end delivery of production AI platforms
- Leads solution architecture
- Orchestrates model pipelines
- Designs multi-agent workflows
- Creates reusable SDKs and frameworks
- Works across product, engineering, security, and governance teams to ensure AI systems are scalable, observable, cost-efficient, and compliant
- Defines design patterns
- Optimizes operational pipelines
- Enables internal reuse of proven solutions
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
