athenahealth - Technical Staff Engineer - Artificial Intelligence / LLM

About the Role :

We are seeking a Member of Technical Staff specializing in Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI to join our engineering team. This role focuses on building, integrating, and deploying generative AI solutions into enterprise-grade software systems.

The ideal candidate brings strong software engineering fundamentals, hands-on experience with AI / ML frameworks, and the ability to design scalable, production-ready AI-powered applications.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design & Development : Develop, integrate, and optimize applications leveraging LLMs, generative AI frameworks, and vector databases.
• AI Integration : Implement APIs and SDKs from platforms such as OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain, and LlamaIndex into production systems.
• Prompt Engineering & RAG : Design, test, and optimize prompt strategies, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation workflows.
• Data Engineering : Work with structured / unstructured datasets, SQL / NoSQL systems, and modern storage solutions to prepare data pipelines for AI applications.
• Scalable Systems : Build performant, maintainable, and secure AI-enabled services with a focus on distributed computing and cloud-native deployments (AWS, Azure).
• Collaboration : Work closely with product managers, data scientists, and software engineers to deliver AI-powered features aligned with business goals.
• Evaluation & Monitoring : Apply AI model evaluation techniques to validate model performance, reliability, and fairness in real-world applications.
• Agile Practices : Contribute to sprint planning, code reviews, and CI / CD pipelines in a modern Agile development environment.

Required Skills & Experience

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