AI/ML Back-end Engineer
Ochsner Health16 days ago
New Orleans, LA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, document, and maintain server-side services, APIs, integration endpoints, and architecture for AI-enabled applications.
- Manage server-side data structures, data storage solutions, reusable code libraries, and backend integrations with conversational interfaces and enterprise systems.
- Implement authentication, authorization, and security controls for HIPAA-regulated environments, including protection of PHI and PII.
- Optimize services for speed, scalability, latency, reliability, uptime, production stability, and performance.
- Troubleshoot defects and performance bottlenecks and follow change-management and backup practices for production systems.
- Collaborate with product, quality assurance, integration, frontend, and design teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Maintain compliance with applicable laws, accreditation standards, organizational policies, and privacy and security requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in lieu of a degree.
- Five years of professional backend or server-side software development experience.
- Experience building and consuming APIs with Python, FastAPI, and asynchronous frameworks.
- Ability to design scalable, high-performance backend systems and independently manage reliability, uptime, and production stability.
- Ability to anticipate and mitigate security and data privacy risks and balance speed, scalability, and compliance.
- Preferred experience with AWS, modern deployment practices, agentic or LLM-integrated services, relational or NoSQL databases, and healthcare or other regulated environments.
- Preferred certifications include AWS Certified Developer, Microsoft Azure Developer Associate, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer.
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional technical and product teams and translate business and product requirements into technical solutions.
Benefits
- The position’s remote or on-site work arrangement is determined by the job description on the careers website.
- Remote work is unavailable to individuals residing and working in Colorado, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, or Washington, D.C.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities.
- The employer provides an equal opportunity workplace and maintains compliance, privacy, safety, and standards-of-conduct programs.
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About Ochsner Health
Ochsner Health is a nonprofit healthcare system headquartered in New Orleans that delivers hospital, clinic, and virtual care across Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South. It operates more than 45 hospitals and over 370 health and urgent care centers, and also runs research and medical education programs. Founded in 1942, Ochsner’s revenue comes primarily from patient care and related services, with growing digital health offerings for chronic disease management and remote monitoring.