Lead Engineer AI
Medline Industries, LP1 day ago
Northbrook, IL, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$154k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed within a business domain to understand processes, workflows, systems, decisions, and operational challenges.
- Build trusted relationships with business stakeholders and identify AI, data, analytics, and automation opportunities.
- Lead discovery sessions and translate ambiguous business problems into solution hypotheses, experiments, and technical requirements.
- Determine whether process improvement, workflow automation, RPA, analytics, machine learning, generative AI, or combined approaches best address each problem.
- Personally build proofs of concept, prototypes, pilots, demonstrations, minimum viable solutions, AI applications, agents, copilots, RAG solutions, analytics tools, automations, integrations, and decision-support tools.
- Use Python, SQL, APIs, low-code tools, automation platforms, and AI-assisted coding capabilities to deliver working solutions.
- Test solutions with users, incorporate feedback, and evaluate business value, usability, feasibility, controls, and scalability.
- Apply engineering practices for design, testing, documentation, security, reliability, maintainability, monitoring, explainability, and secure data handling.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data governance, privacy, and Responsible AI requirements.
- Partner with technical teams to harden, productionize, integrate, deploy, scale, and support successful solutions.
- Provide technical requirements, implementation guidance, documentation, and knowledge transfer during transitions.
- Drive adoption, measure realized value, maintain a domain opportunity roadmap, and create reusable prompts, agent patterns, templates, connectors, and evaluation approaches.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Statistics, Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in AI/ML engineering, data science, data engineering, analytics engineering, automation engineering, solution engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Demonstrated experience building and delivering AI, analytics, data, or automation solutions used in real business workflows.
- Experience creating proofs of concept, prototypes, pilots, demonstrations, or minimum viable solutions and moving them toward deployment or production transition.
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders and end users to translate ambiguous needs into practical solutions.
- Strong hands-on Python and SQL skills.
- Ability to independently build AI applications, workflow automations, RPA solutions, analytics solutions, data workflows, integrations, APIs, and decision-support tools.
- Working knowledge of generative AI, large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, agents, model evaluation, APIs, data integration, and workflow automation.
- Solid fundamentals in machine learning, statistics, experimentation, forecasting, and optimization.
- Working knowledge of version control, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, documentation, and secure data handling.
- Ability to balance rapid experimentation with enterprise architecture, security, data governance, privacy, and Responsible AI requirements.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, relevant cloud, AI, data, analytics, automation, agile, or product certifications, and experience with enterprise AI, analytics, automation, or business platforms.
- Preferred experience includes Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure Machine Learning, Power Platform, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, or comparable platforms.
- Preferred experience includes forward deployed engineering, solution engineering, technical consulting, analytics engineering, automation engineering, enterprise integrations, and healthcare, medical products, supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, commercial operations, or corporate functions.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and career growth potential within a growing worldwide organization.
- Anticipated annual salary range of $154,000.00 to $231,000.00.
- Health insurance, life and disability insurance, 401(k) contributions, and paid time off for employees working 30 or more hours per week on average.
- Employees working fewer than 30 hours per week receive 401(k) contributions and access to the Employee Assistance Program, Employee Resource Groups, and Employee Service Corp.
- Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, belonging, and employee development.
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About Medline Industries, LP
Medline Industries manufactures and distributes medical-surgical supplies, devices, and equipment for hospitals, health systems, post-acute providers, and physician practices, and also offers logistics and supply chain services. Its portfolio spans private-label products, sterile processing, and kitting solutions sold directly to healthcare organizations. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Northfield, Illinois, Medline is privately held; a majority stake was acquired in 2021 by a private equity consortium led by Blackstone, and it operates in over 100 countries.