Orion GroupsRemote
Principal AI & Data Engineer
United States
Contract
1 hour ago
$170,000 - $180,000 USD
H1B Sponsor
Key skills
PythonJavaSQLNoSQLAIClaudeGeminiRAGLangChainData WarehousingAnalyticsBigQuerySpring BootSpringGCPKubernetesServerlessGKECloud RunCloud FunctionsPub/SubVertex AIPostgresMongoDBNeo4jRESTfulApigeeMentoringPrototyping
About this role
Orion Groups is a professional services firm based in McKinney, Texas that provides experienced consultants to key organizations across the United States. They are seeking a Principal AI & Data Engineer to build out AI capabilities for enterprise healthcare, focusing on improving clinical workflows and operational efficiency. The role involves leading AI initiatives, designing AI architectures, and mentoring development teams.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a hands-on architect with strong systems thinking including hands-on engineering
- Lead and support AI-driven initiatives
- Design AI pipelines, guardrails, and patterns for GCP platform
- Integrate LLMs into microservices and healthcare workflows
- Evaluate emerging AI tools (LangChain, Vertex AI, MCP servers)
- Provide architectural guidance and mentor development teams
- Distinguish between prototype vs. production-ready code
- Design and implement AI architecture patterns
- Support microservices integration with AI endpoints
- Contribute to long-term roadmap for consolidated workflows and guardrails
Requirements:
- Hands-on AI experience with real production deployments
- Python expertise (primary language for development, AI toolkits, prototyping)
- Experience building scalable, governed data pipelines
- Java (Spring Boot) and RESTful APIs experience
- Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB, Neo4j), SQL, and database/schema design
- Experience with GCP compute platforms, including container orchestration (Google Kubernetes Engine - GKE) and serverless (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions)
- Experience with message broker/event queue technologies (e.g., Rabbit, GCP Pub/Sub)
- Experience working with API management platforms (e.g., Apigee X)
- Experience with data warehousing and analytics platforms, particularly Google BigQuery
- Familiarity with LLMs (Gemini, GPT, Claude, etc.); Prompt engineering, RAG patterns and understanding of AI development lifecycle and integration into products
- Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field