Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Specialist

Acentra Health exists to empower better health outcomes through technology, services, and clinical expertise. Our mission is to innovate health solutions that deliver maximum value and impact.

Lead the Way is our rallying cry at Acentra Health. Think of it as an open invitation to embrace the mission of the company; to actively engage in problem-solving; and to take ownership of your work every day. Acentra Health offers you unparalleled opportunities. In fact, you have all you need to take charge of your career and accelerate better outcomes - making this a great time to join our team of passionate individuals dedicated to being a vital partner for health solutions in the public sector.

Acentra seeks an Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Specialist to join our growing team.

Job Summary:

Acentra Health's Product Team is responsible for building, modernizing and maintaining our full Care Management product suite. The AI Engineer is critical to productizing and enhancing the AI Proof of Concepts created by our AI Center of Excellence to create value for the Acentra organization.

You'll build production-grade AI features and services as well as the reusable components behind them. Expect hands-on work with LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, and healthcare-grade security/observability. You'll collaborate with the AI Center of Excellence, portfolio, data, and platform teams to take solutions from proof of concept to full product suite deployment at scale.

***This position is remote***

Job Responsibilities:

• Design & Build: Implement LLM-powered services (RAG/ agents/ classifiers/ extractors), APIs, and microservices with strong reliability, testing, and observability
• Evaluation & Guardrails: Implement offline/online evals, red-team tests, prompt/response guardrails, bias/privacy checks, and cost/latency tracking
• Data & Integration: Connect to internal data platforms and line-of-business apps; build retrieval pipelines, grounding strategies, and prompt construction
• Standards & Practices: Support and implement MLOps/LLMOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines, versioning, monitoring, retraining, and governance
• Operational Readiness: Produce runbooks, SLOs, dashboards, and IaC/CI-CD; partner with InfoSec/Compliance on PHI handling and auditability
• Reuse at the Core: Contribute libraries/templates (RAG starters, agent patterns, eval harnesses) to speed the next build
• Read, understand, and adhere to all corporate policies including policies related to HIPAA and its Privacy and Security Rules

The list of accountabilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other education- and experience-related duties that management may deem necessary from time to time.

Required Qualifications/Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field
• 3+ years in software or ML engineering with recent focus on LLM applications
• Strong Python; experience with one or more: Transformers, vector DBs (FAISS/Pinecone/Weaviate), orchestration (LangChain/LlamaIndex), retrieval pipelines
• Cloud & DevOps: AWS services, containers (Docker/K8s), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), observability
• Quality mindset: testing, evals, prompt hygiene, data provenance, and privacy by design

Preferred Qualifications/Experience:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field
• Healthcare/regulated domain experience
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR) and compliance (HIPAA)
• Expertise in Document AI/OCR, model monitoring, and application performance management (APM)

Why us?

We are a team of experienced and caring leaders, clinicians, pioneering technologists, and industry professionals who come together to redefine expectations for the healthcare industry. State and federal healthcare agencies, providers, and employers turn to us as their vital partner to ensure better healthcare and improve health outcomes.

We do this through our people.

You will have meaningful work that genuinely improves people's lives across the country. We are a company that cares about our employees, and we give you the tools and encouragement you need to achieve the finest work of your career.

Benefits

Benefits are a key component of your rewards package. Our benefits are designed to provide you with additional protection, security, and support for both your career and your life away from work. Our benefits include comprehensive health plans, paid time off, retirement savings, corporate wellness, educational assistance, corporate discounts, and more.

Thank You!

We know your time is valuable and we thank you for applying for this position. Due to the high volume of applicants, only those who are chosen to advance in our interview process will be contacted. We sincerely appreciate your interest in Acentra Health and invite you to apply to future openings that may be of interest. Best of luck in your search!

~ The Acentra Health Talent Acquisition Team

Visit us at Acentra.com/careers/

EEO AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Acentra Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable Federal, State or Local law.

Compensation

The pay for this position is listed below.

"Based on our compensation philosophy, an applicant's position placement in the pay range will depend on various considerations, such as years of applicable experience and skill level."