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HCA Healthcare · 1 day ago

Lead AI Engineer

Nashville, TN

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

7+ years exp

HCA Healthcare is a leader in digital transformation within the healthcare industry, focusing on improving patient care through innovative technologies. They are seeking a Lead AI Engineer to drive the development and deployment of AI applications, collaborating with business teams to deliver impactful solutions.

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Responsibilities

Lead design, development, and deployment of Generative AI, LLM, and ML applications in collaboration with business teams as a forward-deployed AI engineer

Partner with product and business stakeholders to shape AI strategy, define use cases, and translate requirements into scalable, high-impact AI solutions

Champion system design and software engineering best practices, ensuring solutions are robust, extensible, and secure

Utilize frameworks such as LangChain, HuggingFace, Vertex AI, and other enterprise-scale AI platforms to build forward-looking capabilities

Drive efficiency in AI development by leveraging AI-assisted development tools, automation, and reusable frameworks

Own the end-to-end AI delivery lifecycle: experimentation, fine-tuning, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement

Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to AI Engineers, advocating responsible AI principles and strong engineering culture

Ensure seamless integration of LLMOps and MLOps practices for production-ready deployments, including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, monitoring, and optimization

Stay ahead of AI trends, evaluating new models, architectures, and tools to maintain competitive advantage

Qualification

PythonGenerative AILarge Language ModelsMLOpsCloud ComputingNLP FrameworksLeadershipCommunicationInterpersonal Skills

Required

Bachelor's degree - Required

7+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on ML and AI System Engineering - Required

Advanced proficiency in Python, particularly in object-oriented programming, API development (e.g., using Flask), and working with SQL - Required

Deep expertise in large language models (LLMs), customer LLM framework, Agentic AI and familiarity with best practices in LLMops, alongside substantial experience with MLOps frameworks such as Vertex AI - Required

Extensive experience with NLP frameworks and libraries such as SpaCy, Transformers, HuggingFace, LangChain, as well as familiarity with other tools (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, NLTK) and techniques including topic modeling, named entity recognition, and information retrieval - Required

Practical experience with large language model prompting techniques, including zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought strategies - Required

Experience with modern Python development practices including type checking, testing frameworks, and package management - Required

Proven experience working within cloud computing environments, ideally on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and a basic understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for cloud setups - Required

Familiarity with ML Development Lifecycle management and MLOps best practices - Required

Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with a strong commitment to mentoring colleagues and fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment - Required

Preferred

Master's degree - Preferred

Understanding of ML/AI platform tooling and patterns - Preferred

Benefits

Base Salary + Benefits

Company

HCA Healthcare

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HCA Healthcare provides medical education and healthcare services in locally managed facilities. It is a sub-organization of North Florida Endoscopy Center.

Founded in 1968

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

10001+ employees