Lead AI Software Engineer, Technology & Digital, FT, 8:30A - 5P
Baptist Health3 months ago
Coral Gables, FL, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$126k - $164k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect secure, highly available, scalable AI-native applications and platforms on Google Cloud.
- Establish and champion spec-driven development practices using frameworks such as BMAD Method, OpenSpec, and GitHub Spec Kit.
- Design and deliver agentic systems with multi-agent orchestration, tool use, retrieval, Agent2Agent interoperability, Model Context Protocol integration, and governed agent gateways.
- Use AI coding agents to accelerate prototypes, research, structured experiments, and proof-of-concepts.
- Build generative AI applications with Gemini and Vertex AI, including prompt and context engineering, grounding/RAG, tool and function calling, agent design, fine-tuning, and model selection.
- Implement security and privacy controls including agent identity and access management, data loss prevention, prompt-injection and jailbreak defenses, and content and safety filtering.
- Establish evaluation harnesses, regression suites, AI observability, quality and drift monitoring, tracing, and FinOps cost visibility.
- Set engineering standards, review designs and code, mentor engineers, and partner with architecture, security, platform, and product stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent.
- At least 10 years of professional software engineering experience shipping production systems.
- Deep hands-on Google Cloud expertise across compute, networking, IAM, data, and AI/ML services.
- Hands-on experience building real applications with Gemini and Vertex AI, including grounding/RAG, tool or function calling, and agent development.
- Extensive experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Antigravity for development, research, and proof-of-concept work.
- Proven ability to design secure, highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-efficient distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience building, deploying, or operating an Agent Gateway or Model Context Protocol gateway, including routing, authentication, authorization, registration, discovery, rate limiting, policy enforcement, and observability.
- Experience with spec-driven or AI-assisted software delivery frameworks.
- Expertise in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript/Node, or Java, plus API design, testing, CI/CD, and Git workflows.
- Knowledge of secure SDLC, secrets management, least-privilege design, non-human identity and access management, prompt injection, data exfiltration, and model abuse.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain architecture, write specifications and design documents, and influence without authority.
- Preferred qualifications include Apigee X or equivalent gateway experience, agent platforms and reusable tooling, AI safety and governance tools, OpenTelemetry, LLM cost governance, regulated-domain experience, SAFe or scaled delivery experience, GitLab or GitHub CI/CD, Terraform, relevant Google Cloud certifications, and open-source or research contributions.
Benefits
- Career growth and development opportunities with clear pathways and ongoing support.
- Comprehensive health and wellness resources.
- Wellness program that can help employees eliminate their medical plan deductible.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Full-time schedule of 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.
- Estimated base salary range of $126148.63-$163993.22 per year, depending on experience.
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About Baptist Health
Baptist Health South Florida is a nonprofit health system headquartered in Coral Gables that operates 12 hospitals and extensive outpatient centers across Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. It provides hospital, urgent care, and specialty services in areas such as cancer, cardiovascular, neurosciences, and orthopedics, funded by patient services and philanthropy. The organization includes internationally recognized institutes serving patients throughout South Florida.