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Principal AI Engineer

New York, NY, US💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-24 → 2026-09-25

Core

Define technical strategy and architecture for AI-enabled products that transform clinical documents into actionable data using LLMs.

Role type

Principal AI Applied Engineer (Strategy & Hands-on IC)

Builds

Enterprise AI platforms, LLM orchestration systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and agentic workflows for healthcare.

Domain

Healthcare / Large Language Models / AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Large language model (LLM) design, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, cloud-native architecture, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, distributed systems design, AI governance, model lifecycle management

Preferred skills

AI platform strategy, vendor ecosystem management, Model Context Protocol (MCP), autonomous systems, regulated industry experience (healthcare/finance), AI-assisted development practices

Technologies

Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, LLMs, RAG, MCP

Responsibilities

Define long-term technical strategy and reference architecture for AI products; Establish architectural patterns for LLM orchestration and agentic workflows; Lead organization-wide technical decisions on model strategy and vendor selection; Design scalable architectures balancing reliability, security, and cost; Build prototypes and reference implementations to de-risk emerging technologies; Mentor Lead and Senior Engineers on architecture and design.

Seniority

Principal, highest-level IC with strategic influence and hands-on execution

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