Product Engineer - AI/ML
Stanford Health Care3 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Partner with clinical and operational stakeholders to uncover root-cause challenges and translate needs into technical solutions.
- Design, build, and iterate working prototypes using Python, APIs, LLM orchestration frameworks, and retrieval systems.
- Evaluate 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 teams on formal evaluation harnesses and construct test suites for model errors and hallucinations.
- Ensure solutions align with healthcare privacy policies, HIPAA, and institutional AI governance standards.
- Transition validated prototypes to enterprise-grade platforms with Data and Software Engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience; a master’s degree is 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.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL and experience with REST APIs, web services, and modern development workflows.
- Hands-on experience with foundation model APIs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks.
- Knowledge of healthcare informatics technologies and standards, enterprise data structures, cloud data platforms, and data privacy governance.
- Ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
Benefits
- Full-time, 1.0 FTE, day shift with an 8-hour schedule.
- Hybrid work arrangement in Palo Alto, California.
- Base pay scale generally starting at $81.59–$108.12 per hour.
Categories
AI ApplicationsProduct Engineering
About Stanford Health Care
Stanford Health Care is a nonprofit academic medical center that provides hospital and outpatient services for adult patients across the Bay Area. It offers specialty care in oncology, neuroscience, cardiovascular medicine, orthopaedics, transplant, and primary/urgent care, with clinical operations anchored by Stanford Hospital and a regional clinic network. Headquartered in Palo Alto and affiliated with the Stanford University School of Medicine, it traces its roots to 1885.