[Remote] Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Specialist

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Acentra Health exists to empower better health outcomes through technology, services, and clinical expertise. They are seeking an Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Specialist to build, modernize, and maintain their Care Management product suite, focusing on productizing AI Proof of Concepts and enhancing AI features and services.ResponsibilitiesDesign & Build: Implement LLM-powered services (RAG/ agents/ classifiers/ extractors), APIs, and microservices with strong reliability, testing, and observabilityEvaluation & Guardrails: Implement offline/online evals, red-team tests, prompt/response guardrails, bias/privacy checks, and cost/latency trackingData & Integration: Connect to internal data platforms and line-of-business apps; build retrieval pipelines, grounding strategies, and prompt constructionStandards & Practices: Support and implement MLOps/LLMOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines, versioning, monitoring, retraining, and governanceOperational Readiness: Produce runbooks, SLOs, dashboards, and IaC/CI-CD; partner with InfoSec/Compliance on PHI handling and auditabilityReuse at the Core: Contribute libraries/templates (RAG starters, agent patterns, eval harnesses) to speed the next buildRead, understand, and adhere to all corporate policies including policies related to HIPAA and its Privacy and Security RulesSkillsBachelors degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field3+ years in software or ML engineering with recent focus on LLM applicationsStrong Python; experience with one or more: Transformers, vector DBs (FAISS/Pinecone/Weaviate), orchestration (LangChain/LlamaIndex), retrieval pipelinesCloud & DevOps: AWS services, containers (Docker/K8s), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), observabilityQuality mindset: testing, evals, prompt hygiene, data provenance, and privacy by designMaster's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related fieldHealthcare/regulated domain experienceKnowledge of healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR) and compliance (HIPAA)Expertise in Document AI/OCR, model monitoring, and application performance management (APM)BenefitsComprehensive health plansPaid time offRetirement savingsCorporate wellnessEducational assistanceCorporate discountsCompany OverviewAcentra Health is a provider of clinical services and technological solutions to government healthcare organizations. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Mclean, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://acentra.com/.Company H1B SponsorshipAcentra Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2026, 49 in 2025, 49 in 2024, 16 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.