Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Sentara Health

Senior AI Engineer driving end-to-end delivery of production AI platforms at Sentara. Collaborating on scalable, compliant AI systems and optimizing operational pipelines.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeRemote • Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $106,080 - $176,820 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Azure

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive end-to-end delivery of production AI platforms
Lead solution architecture, orchestrate model pipelines, and design multi-agent workflows
Create reusable SDKs and frameworks
Collaborate across product, engineering, security, and governance teams
Ensure AI systems are scalable, observable, cost-efficient, and compliant
Define design patterns and optimize operational pipelines
Enable internal reuse of proven solutions
Own the full lifecycle from architecting secure, compliant solutions to deploying and scaling them in production
Work with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, multi-agent orchestration, and API integrations for EHR, CRM, and member portals

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics/Statistics, or related field or equivalent practical experience delivering production AI/ML systems. (Preferred)
Master’s or equivalent experience (Preferred)
Certification/Licensure Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect, or ML specialty credentials (Preferred)
5 years in production-grade AI/ML (Required)
3 years building and operating production AI/ML systems - training, deployment, monitoring (Required)
One year GenAI/LLM or RAG solution delivered to production or equivalent experience open-source contributions, or startups. (Required)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Dental, Vision plans
Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
Emergency Backup Care
Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
Life Insurance
401k/403B with Employer Match
Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
Pet Insurance
Legal Resources Plan
Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI platformssolution architecturemodel pipelinesmulti-agent workflowsSDKsframeworksdesign patternsoperational pipelinesproduction AI/ML systemsGenAI/LLM

Soft Skills

collaborationleadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingorganizational skills

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI EngineerAzure Solutions ArchitectML specialty credentials