Principal AI Engineer

🕒 September 9

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 AI Engineer

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Velsera

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501 - 1000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Consulting • Healthcare Insurance

Velsera is a leading provider of omics analytics solutions, powering precision medicine and enhancing the healthcare and life sciences ecosystem through data and actionable insights. With advanced genomics interpretation platforms, Velsera modernizes patient care by generating clinically actionable reports and integrating workflows on next-generation sequencing (NGS) test menus. Their AI-driven analysis and automation tools accelerate lab delivery of 'omics results, optimize workflow automation, and ensure compliance. Velsera's technology manages the flow of patient samples and applies machine learning to produce accurate and clinically relevant results. The company collaborates with research teams to provide expert insights and supports top pharmaceutical companies and clinical labs globally.

📋 Description

• Build a governed model access layer for self-hosted open-weight models, cloud-managed models, and customer- or partner-supplied models • Integrate AI capabilities into product experiences and enterprise workflows across batch, interactive, and agentic patterns • Establish reusable patterns for evaluation, versioning, approvals, audit trails, cost control, guardrails, and safe rollout/rollback • Partner with product, engineering, security, QARA/compliance, IT, scientific, and commercial teams on AI-native architectures • Move between assignments as business priorities shift and make solutions reusable across the business • Deliver a production-ready, compliant, multi-tenant, auditable, and secure AI/LLM serving and invocation layer • Establish a model governance workflow satisfying regulated customers and Velsera's quality system • Ship two or three end-to-end AI capabilities across different business areas • Create integration patterns supporting reproducibility, traceability, and standards alignment • Establish monitoring, evaluation harnesses, incident playbooks, cost visibility, and measurable SLOs • Develop an evidence-backed point of view on where to build, buy, or avoid AI • Set technical direction for the future AI platform and enablement team

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years shipping AI/ML systems to production • Strong Python and one of Java, Go, or TypeScript • Comfortable in a polyglot codebase and production code review • Hands-on secure cloud architecture experience on at least one major cloud, including network isolation, IAM boundaries, private connectivity, and audit logging • Readiness to work across AWS, Azure, and GCP • Experience operating or integrating self-hosted open-weight models, managed model APIs, and customer-provided models • MLOps/LLMOps experience with AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Azure AI Foundry, or equivalent • Experience building governance for ML/LLM systems, including evaluation, versioning, approvals, rollout, rollback, and deprecation • Experience designing for regulated or audited environments such as HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11, GxP, FedRAMP, SOC 2, GDPR, or similar • Experience with RAG and LLM tool-use/agentic patterns beyond prototypes, including evaluation • Track record integrating with existing products, third-party SaaS, and enterprise data sources • Clear written communication for engineering, product, security, compliance, business, and scientific audiences • Comfort switching context across problem domains and starting from ambiguous requirements • Experience in genomics, biomedical data, or life sciences platforms is nice to have • Experience with ISO 13485, IEC 62304, IVDR, clinical/diagnostic contexts, CWL/WDL/Nextflow, GA4GH, FHIR, OMOP, enterprise systems integration, multi-cloud production, or customer-/grant-funded engagements is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Collaborative and supportive environment • Flexible working practices • Inclusive and diverse team • Equal opportunity employment • Opportunities to work on cutting-edge science and technology innovation • Opportunity to shape AI across products and company operations • Broad scope of ownership • Work impacting patient lives and the healthcare industry