[Hiring] Senior MLOps & Generative AI Engineer @Sentara Health

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior MLOps & Generative AI Engineer to join our growing AI organization and help advance current and future initiatives applying machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and Generative AI technologies to improve healthcare outcomes and operational excellence.

This role combines two critical focus areas:

• MLOps Engineering: building and scaling enterprise-grade ML infrastructure, deployment pipelines, observability, governance, and automation capabilities.
• Generative AI Engineering: designing, architecting, deploying, and optimizing secure, production-ready GenAI applications and platforms leveraging LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, prompt orchestration, and AI evaluation frameworks.

As a Senior Engineer, you will partner closely with AI Scientists, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, and Product teams to operationalize AI/ML and Generative AI solutions at enterprise scale. You will play a key role in shaping the organization’s AI platform strategy, driving best practices, and delivering scalable, secure, and reliable AI systems in production healthcare environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and deploying production software, ML systems, or AI platforms.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience building production Generative AI or LLM-based applications.
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with software engineering best practices.
• Experience with major deep learning and LLM frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, TensorFlow, or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience implementing RAG architectures, vector search, embeddings, prompt engineering, and LLM orchestration frameworks.
• Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS, Milvus, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience deploying AI/ML systems in cloud environments including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, microservices, and scalable backend architectures.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, orchestration, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and MLOps best practices.
• Experience building monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions for ML and AI systems.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML lifecycle management, governance, model versioning, and production operations.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, production-ready AI platforms and services.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work across technical and business teams.

Requirements

• Previous experience implementing Generative AI and MLOps solutions within healthcare environments.
• Experience working with EPIC or healthcare interoperability platforms.
• Understanding of HIPAA, PHI handling, healthcare compliance, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience with AI governance frameworks, LLM evaluation methodologies, and AI safety tooling.
• Experience with GPU infrastructure optimization and scalable inference architectures.
• Familiarity with multi-agent AI systems and autonomous workflows.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, streaming pipelines, and real-time inference systems.
• Exposure to model fine-tuning techniques including LoRA, PEFT, RLHF, or domain adaptation strategies.
• Experience with enterprise AI platform architecture and internal developer platforms.
• Prior experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.

Education

• 5+ years of relevant experience with a degree (Required) or 7+ years of relevant experience without a degree (Required).

Benefits

• 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.