Sr. AI Engineer

COMPANY SUMMARY

Sorcero's medically-tuned intelligence platform transforms life sciences decision-making, accelerating patient access to life-saving treatments. By harnessing insights from global medical data, we empower industry leaders to deliver breakthrough therapies. Founded in 2018 by pioneers in AI, public health, and personalized content, Sorcero is a Certified B Corp headquartered in Washington, DC. Our innovation has been recognized by over a dozen awards, including Fast Company's Most Innovative companies of 2024, and six foundational medical AI patents. For more information, visit www.Sorcero.com.

WHY JOIN SORCERO?

Our growth and success by collaborating with our network of passionate entrepreneurs to build a scalable, impactful organization. From flexible working arrangements to encouraging meaningful interactions with teammates across the globe, Sorcero provides a supportive community to bring out the best in each of us.

Our employees are driven by these common values:

• Pursuit of excellence and mastery of their craft
• Humility in defeat and in success
• Kindness and empathy towards others
• Desire to create large-scale, positive change

Sorcero builds AI powered solutions, combining the power of deep learning with the accuracy of ontologies to drive natural language understanding.  Top Pharma companies, scientists and researchers use our platform and applications.

THE ROLE

We are looking for an AI Engineer with experience in enterprise SaaS environments, with a focus on Generative AI and Data Science skills. The ideal candidate will have experience designing, building, and training AI-powered services for processing complex data in the life sciences domain. 

You will tackle some of our most critical AI challenges:

• Building robust pipelines for ingesting and processing both structured and unstructured data from diverse life sciences sources
• Developing and implementing transparent and explainable AI systems that maintain scientific accuracy while delivering insights that medical professionals can trust and act upon
• Creating domain-specific AI solutions that can navigate the complexity of medical and scientific language with high precision
• Balancing the power of cutting-edge AI with the need for regulatory compliance and scientific rigor in healthcare applications

The primary languages, services, and frameworks that the candidate would be expected to work with frequently: Python, Jupyter Notebooks, pytest, Poetry, PostgreSQL, Big Query, Vertex AI, Google Cloud Storage, PyTorch, and LLMs within Google's Model Garden. Sorcero is an agile startup on the bleeding edge of current AI advancements, including LLMs, RAG and Agentic Frameworks. Experience with deploying and maintaining LLM-based systems and frameworks used for them (such as LangChain and LlamaIndex) is a bonus, as is the ability to learn new technologies quickly.

The ideal candidate will be a collaborative team player who can execute quickly and thrive in a fast-paced environment. You will be expected to contribute to the decision-making process and influence the design of our services, bringing initiative and a positive, collaborative attitude. Communication skills are critical, as AI engineers are the ambassadors of good AI practices throughout Sorcero.

Keep in mind - this is a challenging domain. We make decisions fast, based on scientific facts, using advanced custom technology. We are not building standard, ordinary applications. Our products are innovative and so is our team. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to contribute meaningfully and learn while having fun in the process.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Explainable AI Development: Build AI systems with transparency and explainability at their core, allowing users to understand how and why specific conclusions are reached—critical for life sciences applications where trustworthiness is paramount
• Model Development & Refinement: Collaborate with the AI and MLOps teams to build and prototype new solutions for our customers, as well as our enterprise SaaS product offerings
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with product and delivery teams to assist with the design and development of AI-powered features in our products
• Model Creation & Training: Create, train and test models that deliver our AI capabilities with a focus on scientific accuracy and domain relevance
• Model Optimization: Fine-tune, optimize and ground models to ensure they are sound and fit for purpose. Own assignments from proof-of-concept to design, and code delivery to MLOps
• Product Understanding: Understand our products from both the customer perspective and the engineering perspective
• AI Advocacy: Actively advocate for improving AI best practices, both internally in the tools and services offered by the AI team, as well as externally in the way the product teams integrate against those services

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Success in this role will be measured by:

• Ability to develop accurate, scalable, and explainable AI solutions that directly address customer needs
• Reduction in processing time for complex scientific datasets while maintaining or improving accuracy
• Quality of integration between AI systems and product features as measured by customer satisfaction
• Contributions to our AI toolkit that enable other teams to build more efficiently
• Demonstrated ability to balance innovation with production stability in deployed AI systems

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 8+ years of enterprise SaaS software development experience
• 8+ years of Python experience
• 8+ years of experience with cloud computing (GCP preferred)
• Experience with Large Language Models
• Experience with common Data Science tooling and packages
• A positive and collaborative attitude
• Initiative and self-motivation
• Motivation and drive to continuously improve and learn by trying new tools, processes, or methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Company-provided laptop and hardware

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Sorcero is a remote and globally distributed team. We offer rewarding compensation that will include a base salary in the range of $180,000-$200,000 depending on experience.

We also provide the following benefits:

• Three weeks PTO + 1 week of December holiday recess
• One week Safe & Sick leave
• 10 company holidays + 2 floating holidays
• Medical, dental and vision benefits for you and your family
• Paid parental bonding leave
• 401(k) retirement plan, company match up to 5%
• Company-provided laptop and hardware

Because ∑ (human + AI) > human or AI alone

Sorcero is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, education, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. and celebrates the diversity of its growing team.

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visa at this time.