Product Engineer - AI/ML
Stanford Medicine3 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Partner with operational and clinical teams to identify root-cause challenges and translate them into technical solutions.
- Design, build, and iterate on prototypes using Python, modern APIs, LLM orchestration frameworks, and retrieval systems.
- Determine whether automation, rule-based logic, or generative AI is the appropriate solution for operational bottlenecks.
- Balance model accuracy, latency, maintainability, and operational inference costs.
- Integrate prototypes with health system data stores, enterprise APIs, and workflow tools.
- Collaborate with Data Science teammates on formal evaluation harnesses before enterprise deployment.
- Construct test suites to measure and mitigate hallucinations, omissions, errors, and factual inaccuracies.
- Ensure compliance with healthcare privacy policies, HIPAA regulations, and institutional AI governance standards.
- Partner with Data and Software Engineers to transition validated prototypes to enterprise-grade platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Master's degree preferred.
- 3–5+ years of progressive experience in data science, software engineering, applied AI engineering, or technical product development.
- Experience in healthcare, health technology, or complex regulated enterprise environments.
- Knowledge of healthcare informatics technologies and standards.
- Proven ability to manage complex projects involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience using REST APIs, web services, and modern development workflows.
- Hands-on experience with foundation model APIs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks.
- Familiarity with enterprise data structures, cloud data platforms, and data privacy governance.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.
Benefits
- Day shift with an 08-hour schedule in the United States of America.
- Stanford Health Care employment with a stated base pay scale of $81.59–$108.12 per hour.
- Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and nondiscrimination.