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Senior Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer - Remote

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics/Statistics, or related field
  • 5 years in production-grade AI/ML
  • 3 years building and operating production AI/ML systems - training, deployment, monitoring
  • One year GenAI/LLM or RAG solution delivered to production

Responsibilities

  • Drive end-to-end delivery of production AI platforms
  • Lead solution architecture and orchestrate model pipelines
  • Design multi-agent workflows and create reusable SDKs and frameworks
  • Ensure AI systems are scalable, observable, cost-efficient, and compliant

About the company

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Sentara Healthcare

Hospitals & Health Care

Sentara Health celebrates a 130-year history of innovation, compassion, and community benefit. Based in Norfolk, VA, Sentara is a diverse not-for-profit family of 12 hospitals, an array of integrated services, and a team of nearly 30,000 strong on a mission to improve health every day. This is pursued through a disciplined strategy to achieve Top 10% performance in key measures through shared best practices, transformation of primary care through clinical integration and strategic growth that adds value to the communities we serve in Virginia and North Carolina. Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sentarahealth Follow us on Instagram at @SentaraHealth

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryHospitals & Health Care
Company size10001

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City/State

Norfolk, VA

Work Shift

First (Days)

Overview:

Sentara is hiring a Senior AI Engineer!

This position is fully remote.

Work Location:

Remote opportunities available in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington (state), West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Overview

The Senior AI Engineer drives end-to-end delivery of production AI platforms—leading solution architecture, orchestrating model pipelines, designing multi-agent workflows, and creating reusable SDKs and frameworks. They work across product, engineering, security, and governance teams to ensure AI systems are scalable, observable, cost-efficient, and compliant. Senior Engineers are responsible for defining design patterns, optimizing operational pipelines, and enabling internal reuse of proven solutions. 

 

As an AI Engineer, you will own the full lifecycle from architecting secure, compliant solutions to deploying and scaling them in production. You will work with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, multi-agent orchestration, and API integrations for EHR, CRM, and member portals all while solving complex problems, ensure HIPAA compliance and Responsible AI practices.  

 

Education 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics/Statistics, or related field or equivalent practical experience delivering production AI/ML systems. (Preferred)  

  • Master’s or equivalent experience (Preferred) 

 

Certification/Licensure 

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect, or ML specialty credentials (Preferred)  

 

Experience 

  • 5 years in production-grade AI/ML (Required)  

  • 3 years building and operating production AI/ML systems - training, deployment, monitoring (Required) 

  • One year GenAI/LLM or RAG solution delivered to production or equivalent experience open-source contributions, or startups. (Required)  

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay rate for full-time employment is: $106,080 - $176,820.80. Additional compensation may be available for this role such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career
Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
•Pet Insurance 
•Legal Resources Plan
•Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.


In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

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