Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Role summary:
Help power the infrastructure behind athenahealth’s AI platform. The Senior MLOps Engineer is a Senior Associate-level role based in Boston, MA in a hybrid work model, responsible for engineering, maintaining, and advancing centralized AI platforms that support model training, serving, monitoring, and operational reliability. This role partners across engineering, data science, and platform teams to improve platform performance, security, and availability while enabling scalable AI development and deployment. This role reports to the Senior Manager.
Team summary:
Core AI is at the center of athenahealth’s company-wide initiative to unlock the value of healthcare information through data science, machine learning, and generative AI. Working with large-scale healthcare data, the team develops platforms and capabilities that support innovative AI use cases across the business and help improve the healthcare experience for providers and patients.
The MLOps team designs, develops, deploys, monitors, and supports the cloud-based platform that powers frontier, foundational, and customized models at athenahealth. This team focuses on operational reliability, platform performance, secure delivery, and scalable engineering practices. The Senior MLOps Engineer will help build and improve the tools, infrastructure, and workflows that make it easier for teams to train, deploy, observe, and manage AI services in production. This role works closely with AI engineers, data scientists, and infrastructure partners to ensure the platform is resilient, efficient, and ready to support evolving business and technical needs.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Engineer and maintain centralized AI and MLOps platforms that support model training, deployment, and serving at scale.
- Ensure the availability, performance, and reliability of cloud-based ML training and inference platforms through monitoring, alerting, and proactive issue identification.
- Build automation and platform tools that improve deployment speed, service stability, and engineering confidence.
- Deploy and maintain containerized services and ML workloads in Kubernetes-based environments.
- Integrate security practices into software and infrastructure delivery workflows to support secure, reliable platform operations.
- Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, and AI teams to support high availability, disaster recovery, and strong customer outcomes.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging AI tools and technologies from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and AWS where they align with platform needs.
- Develop microservices and platform components in public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Use AI tools and platform capabilities in day-to-day engineering work to improve troubleshooting, automation, deployment workflows, and operational efficiency, while continuing to learn and apply new tools as they become relevant to the role.
Additional Job Responsibilities:
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and follow-up remediation efforts.
- Document platform architecture, operational procedures, and engineering standards.
- Contribute to platform roadmap discussions and technical planning activities.
- Partner with data scientists and AI engineers to improve model training and deployment workflows.
- Assist with evaluation of new frameworks, tooling, and observability capabilities.
- Improve system visibility through dashboards, metrics, and log aggregation practices.
- Participate in design reviews and cross-team technical discussions.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of MLOps, DevOps, and SRE practices.
Expected Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 4 to 6 years of experience in Software Engineering, Data Engineering, MLOps, DevOps, SRE, or a related technical area.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, including designing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise-class ML models and services.
- Proficiency in Python and experience developing microservices in public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with ML platform and infrastructure technologies such as Terraform, Spark, service mesh architectures including Istio, and cloud security practices.
- Experience deploying and maintaining Linux-based, scalable, fault-tolerant software platforms.
- Experience with Azure AI Foundry or Amazon Bedrock, and familiarity with services such as LiteLLM, LangSmith, Arize, or Braintrust.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with databases and data platforms such as Snowflake, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, configuration management, and orchestration tools such as Jenkins, Puppet, Bottlerocket, or Chef.
- Experience working with Data Scientists and AI Engineers, including support for model training pipelines such as Kubeflow.
Expected Compensation
$145,000 - $247,000The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
Top Skills
athenahealth Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
80 Guest Street, Boston, MA, United States, 02135
Similar Jobs
What you need to know about the Boston Tech Scene
Key Facts About Boston Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 269,000; 9.4% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Toast, Klaviyo, HubSpot, DraftKings
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, robotics, software, aerospace
- Funding Landscape: $15.7 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Summit Partners, Volition Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, MassVentures, Highland Capital Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: MIT, Harvard University, Boston College, Tufts University, Boston University, Northeastern University, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, National Bureau of Economic Research, Broad Institute, Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories
