AI Platform Engineer

This position is responsible for design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of AI and ML solutions and frameworks in on premise and Azure cloud environments. Individual will work with existing data systems and develop pipelines to support AI and ML workflow integration, monitoring, and related application development and integration.

Specifically, the Engineer will facilitate and lead technical integration and configuration of platform components and reference designs to support the development and deployment of AI enabled solutions. Solutions may be deployed in the clinical workflow / Epic EMR, reporting solutions, vendor applications, or internally developed applications. This will require an understanding of the AI and ML development lifecycle using Python, API integration, Azure, LLMs, RAG/TAG, MCP, and other related technologies and frameworks. This position is expected to have a high level of autonomy, in addition to collaborating with internal staff and partners (technical, clinical, business operations, IT, research). This role is critical to our organization and decision makers throughout the organization to help deploy high quality AI and ML solutions.

Additional Information

Hours per week: 40, eligible for benefits
Shift: Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm. Work hours may vary depending on the need of the department.

*This is a hybrid position

Duties & Responsibilities

• Analyzes, designs, builds, modifies, implements, tests and debugs new or existing data streams, architectures, databases, and systems integration to automate business processes, as applicable. Completes data extraction and manipulation to develop meaningful and actionable results and may complete data profiling. Supports and performs data validation and auditing. Writes and documents technical specifications to build complex analytics solutions.
• Designs and/or implements complex machine learning or predictive models and AI algorithms to integrate into workflow.
• Conducts data analysis and develops meaningful, accurate and dependable data reports, and dashboards using SQL and/or other toolset. Recommends, develops, documents and maintains coding and development standards, principles and practices.
• Administrates, builds and supports analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights for the business. Develops in open source tools as needed.
• Consults and collaborates with a variety of individuals and department leaders and teams to provide comprehensive analyses supporting organizational wide projects, programs, and initiatives. Gathers, analyzes and documents business and user requirements, functional requirements and data specifications.
• Identifies data sources needed to produce required data sets, reports, or dashboards. Ensures delivered data solutions meet or exceed requirements. Collaborates with others to solve problems and obtain feedback on outputs
• Designs and develops complex processes required to extract, transform, cleanse and load data into the enterprise data warehouse and data marts. Develops solutions to address data warehouse query performance and quality issues including data profiling, development, enhancement, and technical standards. Ensures systems are maintained, and supported during system and database upgrades and modifications.
• Troubleshoots performance and system availability problems ensuring quality of the enterprise data warehouse. Consults with ARC, end users and information technology staff to identify user problems.
• Participates in Production Support on-call rotation as necessary.
• Serves as a technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts. Verifies program logic by overseeing the preparation of test data, testing and debugging of programs. May assist lower level developers in the development of complex coding. Reviews, analyzes and recommends coding enhancements from lower level developers.
• Involved in the development, preparation and outcome tracking for clinical and operational performance metrics.
• Manages, facilitates, and provides oversight for a variety of analytical projects from start to finish. Providing project management, data analysis, consultation and support for collaborative work and major improvement initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

• EDUCATION - Bachelor's degree
• EXPERIENCE - Minimum of five (5) year of related IT or Healthcare experience
• EQUIVALENCY - Combination of post-high school education, job related certification and/or related experience equivalent to nine (9) years may be considered in lieu of minimum requirements
• CERTIFICATION(S) - Epic Certification required within four months of hire to maintain employment.

Salary Information
Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $109,636.42 to $164,454.63

Benefits Information
Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.