athenahealth - Principal Staff Engineer - Generative AI

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

This position requires expertise in designing, developing, debugging, and maintaining AI-powered applications and data engineering workflows for both local and cloud environments.

The role involves working on large-scale projects, optimizing AI / ML pipelines, and ensuring scalable data infrastructure.

As a PMTS, you will be responsible for integrating Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities, building data pipelines for AI model training, and deploying scalable AI-powered microservices.

You will collaborate with AI / ML, Data Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams to deliver impactful solutions that enhance our products and services.

Additionally, it would be desirable if the candidate has experience in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning pre-trained LLMs, AI model evaluation, data pipeline automation, and optimizing cloud-based AI :

AI-Powered Software Development & API Integration :

• Develop AI-driven applications, microservices, and automation workflows using FastAPI, Flask, or Django, ensuring cloud-native deployment and performance optimization.
• Integrate OpenAI APIs (GPT models, Embeddings, Function Calling) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques to enhance AI-powered document retrieval, classification, and decision-making.

Data Engineering & AI Model Performance Optimization :

Microservices, APIs & Security :

AI & Data Engineering Collaboration :

Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing :

Education & Experience Required :

Experience with structured & unstructured data :

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