AI/ML Back-end Engineer
Ochsner Health5 days ago
New Orleans, LA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, document, and maintain server-side services, REST APIs, integration endpoints, and system architecture for AI-enabled applications.
- Design and manage data storage solutions, server-side data structures, reusable code libraries, and well-tested backend code.
- Implement authentication, authorization, and security controls for HIPAA-regulated environments, including secure handling of PHI and PII.
- Optimize services for speed, scalability, latency, stability, uptime, and production reliability, and troubleshoot defects and performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with product managers, QA, integration engineers, frontend engineers, and design teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Follow change-management and backup practices before making significant production changes and comply with applicable policies, laws, and standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 5 years of professional backend/server-side software development experience.
- Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs with Python, FastAPI, and asynchronous frameworks.
- Ability to design scalable, high-performance backend systems and translate business and product requirements into technical solutions.
- Ability to independently manage system reliability, uptime, production stability, security, privacy, scalability, and compliance.
- Preferred AWS experience and knowledge of modern containerized deployment practices and CI/CD.
- Preferred hands-on experience with agentic or LLM-integrated services, relational or NoSQL databases, and healthcare or other regulated environments.
- Preferred AWS Certified Developer, Microsoft Azure Developer Associate, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer certification.
Benefits
- The position is based in a healthcare setting and may involve occupational exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste, though the routine includes no blood, body fluid, or tissue exposure and no emergency-care duties.
- Remote eligibility depends on the position; residents working from Colorado, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, or Washington D.C. are not eligible for remote positions.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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