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Lead AI Platform Engineer

United States - Wisconsin - Madison💼 Full-time💰 $99,300–$99,300🗓 2026-07-31 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the strategic vision and technical execution of AI initiatives, developing and deploying ML, NLP, and Generative AI solutions to solve complex business problems.

Role type

Lead AI Platform Engineer (strategic IC with mentorship)

Builds

End-to-end AI ML pipelines including data ingestion, preprocessing, search/retrieval, RAG, and LLM model development for batch and stream processing

Domain

Healthcare diagnostics and oncology

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Generative AI, Large Language Models, Python, cloud platforms, Agile project management, Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFE), ethical AI practices, data privacy and security

Preferred skills

Gen AI solutions at scale, fine-tuning LLMs/SLMs, teacher-student frameworks, model distillation, human-in-the-loop methods (DPO), Agentic framework platforms

Technologies

Python, RAG, LLMs, SLMs, Agentic frameworks

Responsibilities

Lead execution of ML/NLP/LLM deliverables; Collaborate with data scientists and software engineers for production integration; Develop and deploy AI models and algorithms; Coach and mentor team members; Champion ethical AI and regulatory compliance

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership

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