Staff AI Engineer
Cardinal Health, Inc.21 hours ago
Southfield, MI, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$96k - $151k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, prototype, deploy, monitor, and optimize production-ready generative AI applications and pipelines.
- Build Python-based APIs and software components that support scalable AI services.
- Develop multi-step agentic workflows for reasoning, task execution, and orchestration using LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or similar frameworks.
- Integrate AI capabilities into healthcare, pharmacy services, case management, program operations, analytics, and internal knowledge workflows.
- Contribute to enterprise AI platforms and reference architectures across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
- Ensure AI solutions address security, privacy, HIPAA, PHI handling, compliance, and responsible AI requirements.
- Document designs, reusable patterns, trade-offs, and best practices for long-term platform sustainability.
- Evaluate vendor architectures, APIs, data flows, identity and access controls, security, scalability, interoperability, and operational supportability.
- Participate in technical discovery and proof-of-concept activities and recommend vendor, integration, and implementation approaches.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or a related technical field is preferred.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience with strong Python proficiency and preferred experience in Java, .NET, or C#.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience building GenAI or LLM-based applications in real-world or enterprise environments.
- Experience designing and implementing agentic or multi-step AI workflows with LangGraph or similar orchestration frameworks.
- Strong understanding of retrieval pipelines, embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, and LLM APIs.
- Experience deploying AI solutions in Azure and/or GCP cloud environments.
- Familiarity with secure application development, enterprise integration patterns, responsible AI, model monitoring, and governance.
- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, pharmacy services, regulated industries, or supporting internal business users is preferred.
- Knowledge of HIPAA, PHI data handling, and secure AI design in compliance-driven environments is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid time off plan.
- Health savings account and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) savings plan.
- Access to wages before payday through myFlexPay.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Work-Life resources and paid parental leave.
- Healthy lifestyle programs.
- Bonus eligible: No.
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About Cardinal Health, Inc.
Cardinal Health is a public healthcare services company that distributes pharmaceuticals and medical products to hospitals, pharmacies, and healthcare providers, and manufactures a range of medical and laboratory supplies. It also operates nuclear pharmacies and offers data and performance solutions for healthcare operations. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health trades on the NYSE under the ticker CAH and serves customers globally across care settings.