Software Developer II
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital3 days ago
Memphis, TN, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$78k - $139k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement AI solutions, including recommendation systems, NLP pipelines, and LLM-powered features.
- Build and maintain data pipelines for model training, evaluation, and inference.
- Integrate AI models into production systems through APIs and microservices.
- Use LLMs for prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
- Optimize model performance, latency, and cost in production environments.
- Monitor and improve deployed models through drift detection, retraining, and logging.
- Collaborate on clean architecture, maintainable code, software specifications, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, installation, and lifecycle processes.
- Work with customers, vendors, and departments on technical software design and maintenance issues.
- Apply information security and information assurance policies and practices.
- Evaluate and adopt new methods and technologies while supporting assigned projects and departmental objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, information science, business, or a related field is required.
- At least 2 years of IT experience in systems programming and development is required, preferably in a comparable industry.
- Familiarity with software development lifecycle methodologies and experience identifying and documenting requirements with business stakeholders are required.
- Demonstrated performance in an earlier or comparable role is required.
- Master’s degree is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes LLMs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source models; vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or FAISS; RAG architectures; NLP; recommendation systems; or deep learning.
Benefits
- The posting states that St. Jude provides exceptional benefits.
- St. Jude emphasizes a human-centered hiring experience with human review and engagement in recruiting decisions.
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About St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a nonprofit pediatric research hospital that treats children with cancer and other life‑threatening diseases and advances therapies through in-house labs, clinical trials, and data resources like St. Jude Cloud. Founded in 1962 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, it is funded primarily by public donations raised by ALSAC and by research grants. The hospital provides care regardless of a family’s ability to pay and collaborates globally.