AI Engineer

• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models and AI-powered applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement AI/ML solutions for client needs
• Build and maintain data pipelines, model training workflows, and inference systems
• Evaluate and integrate large language models (LLMs), generative AI tools, and emerging AI frameworks
• Monitor model performance, conduct testing, and iterate on improvements
• Document technical architectures, methodologies, and best practices
• Stay current with AI/ML research and translate advancements into practical applications

• Define and evolve enterprise AI architecture, standards, reference models and implementation guidelines to support consistent solution delivery across business functions
• Align AI initiatives to enterprise strategies, roadmaps, and business priorities
• Identify and prioritize AI opportunities that drive student success and operational efficiency
• Design scalable AI platforms and solutions across data, application, and technology domains
• Provide guidance on how AI, ML, and automation will improve current and future-state architectures
• Lead design and implementation of AI-powered solutions (e.g., LLMs, agents, automation, and analytics)
• Integrate AI capabilities with enterprise applications and data platforms
• Guide evaluation and selection of AI/ML models, frameworks, and vendors
• Establish reusable patterns, APIs, and integration approaches
• Establish governance practices covering model oversight, responsible AI usage, security controls, compliance expectations, and lifecycle management
• Establish AI governance, including responsible AI, security, privacy, and compliance (FERPA, HIPAA, GDPR)
• Establish lifecycle management practices (MLOps/LLMOps, model monitoring, drift detection, retraining)
• Implement performance, bias, and risk monitoring frameworks
• Ensure secure AI architecture (e.g., data protection, isolation, adversarial defense)
• Partner with business, product, data, and engineering teams to provide AI solutions
• Provide architectural guidance to architects and delivery teams
• Facilitate workshops, POCs, demos and AI adoption projects identifying viable opportunities where AI can be a positive differentiator
• Mentor teams on AI best practices, patterns, and frameworks

Enterprise AI Architect

LLM Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain scalable ML infrastructure and pipelines supporting model training, deployment, monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines for machine learning and AI workloads across development, staging, and production environments.
• Build reusable ML platform capabilities including feature stores, model registries, experimentation frameworks, artifact management, and deployment automation.
• Implement scalable orchestration and workflow solutions for batch and real-time ML inference workloads.
• Create robust monitoring systems to measure model performance, detect model drift, monitor data quality, and ensure production reliability.
• Develop automation tools and self-service capabilities to improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of MLOps processes.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and Software Engineers to streamline the ML lifecycle from experimentation through enterprise production deployment.
• Apply software engineering best practices to AI/ML systems including testing, observability, resiliency, security, versioning, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Identify gaps and improvement opportunities within the organization’s ML platform ecosystem and architect scalable solutions to address them.
• Support enterprise AI governance, compliance, auditability, and model risk management requirements.
• Ensure platform scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence across AI/ML systems.
• Lead the architecture, design, and deployment of enterprise Generative AI solutions leveraging LLMs, foundation models, and agentic AI systems.
• Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, reranking, and retrieval optimization strategies.
• Build scalable LLM orchestration frameworks using technologies such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent frameworks.
• Develop advanced prompt engineering strategies, prompt chaining, context management, and agent workflows to improve LLM accuracy and reliability.
• Evaluate and implement fine-tuning, parameter-efficient tuning, and prompt-based optimization approaches for domain-specific use cases.
• Build AI evaluation and benchmarking frameworks to measure hallucination rates, response quality, grounding accuracy, toxicity, bias, latency, and business performance metrics.
• Implement AI safety guardrails, governance controls, content filtering, and responsible AI practices for enterprise healthcare environments.
• Design scalable GenAI APIs and microservices supporting high-throughput enterprise AI applications.
• Optimize GenAI systems for cost, latency, throughput, and inference performance across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Integrate enterprise data sources, healthcare systems, and knowledge repositories into secure GenAI workflows.
• Research and evaluate emerging GenAI technologies, open-source frameworks, and foundation models to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
• Develop architecture diagrams, technical roadmaps, implementation strategies, and executive-level documentation for enterprise AI initiatives.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure teams to ensure secure and compliant deployment of GenAI solutions involving PHI and sensitive healthcare data.
• Contribute to the development of AI platform standards, reusable GenAI accelerators, templates, and engineering best practices.

Senior MLOps, Generative AI Engineer

AI Research Scientist

• Build, deploy, and maintain production-grade AI and ML pipelines, backend services, and infrastructure that support Oura's AI Advisor and custom model initiatives
• Design and implement evaluation systems and tooling to measure grounding, reliability, and actionability of LLM and agentic systems in production
• Develop and deploy agentic AI systems in production
• Lead initiatives end to end — from problem definition and research through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to translate data-driven insights into shipped product features
• Build and optimize custom AI solutions through fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and quantization
• Help build Oura as a leader in AI expertise and infrastructure
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve the product and bring your own ideas to the table

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