Define the long‑term strategy and roadmap for applied AI and AI engineering capabilities supporting enterprise healthcare goals.
Ensure alignment between AI engineering initiatives and organizational priorities, system requirements, and operational needs.
Lead distributed engineering teams to deliver production‑grade AI systems with clear accountability and predictable execution.
Oversee end‑to‑end development of AI systems including model lifecycle management, orchestration, deployment, and observability.
Establish frameworks for AI evaluation, monitoring, safety, alignment, and incident response to ensure responsible and compliant AI operations.
Define architectural direction for scalable AI platforms, distributed systems, and model‑serving infrastructure.
Implement engineering best practices across Agile delivery, documentation, estimation, SRE, QA, and development workflows.
Recruit, develop, and mentor engineering leaders and senior‑level individual contributors.
Oversee vendor relationships, cloud usage, and external integrations to ensure optimization of cost, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Bachelor’s degree
10 or more years of leadership experience in software engineering, AI engineering, or applied AI roles.
5 or more years experience building and operating production AI systems including model development, MLOps, deployment pipelines, and observability.
5 or more years experience designing prompt architectures, system prompts, and multi‑component prompt flows.
5 or more years experience implementing agentic patterns for orchestration, planning, and autonomous workflows.
5 or more years experience defining and applying AI safety, evaluation, monitoring, and alignment frameworks in enterprise environments.
5 or more years experience leading distributed engineering teams across onshore and offshore models.
5 or more years experience designing distributed systems and AI platform architecture for scalable, reliable services.
5 or more years experience working with security, compliance, or regulatory frameworks relevant to AI and data environments.

Executive Director, AI Software Engineering – Principal

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