Sentara Health

Sentara Health

Senior MLOps & Generative AI Engineer - Remote

Virginia Beach, VA · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$91k-$152kDetected 1 hour ago
PythonDistributed SystemsVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchNLPLLMsRAGAgentic AIMLOpsAI OrchestrationA/B TestingComplianceHIPAAEpicResearch

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About the role

  • This role combines two critical focus areas:
  • Generative AI Engineering - designing, architecting, deploying, and optimizing secure, production-ready GenAI applications and platforms leveraging LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, prompt orchestration, and AI evaluation frameworks.
  • Sentara is hiring a Senior MLOps & Generative AI Engineer!

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable ML infrastructure and pipelines supporting model training, deployment, monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management.
  • 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.
  • Support enterprise AI governance, compliance, auditability, and model risk management requirements.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and deploying production software, ML systems, or AI platforms.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and experience with software engineering best practices.
  • Hands-on experience implementing RAG architectures, vector search, embeddings, prompt engineering, and LLM orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS, Milvus, or equivalent technologies.
  • Experience deploying AI/ML systems in cloud environments including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, microservices, and scalable backend architectures.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, orchestration, and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and MLOps best practices.
  • Strong understanding of AI/ML lifecycle management, governance, model versioning, and production operations.
  • Experience designing secure, scalable, production-ready AI platforms and services.

Nice to have

  • Experience with AI governance frameworks, LLM evaluation methodologies, and AI safety tooling.
  • Experience with GPU infrastructure optimization and scalable inference architectures.
  • Familiarity with multi-agent AI systems and autonomous workflows.
  • Experience with event-driven architectures, streaming pipelines, and real-time inference systems.
  • Exposure to model fine-tuning techniques including LoRA, PEFT, RLHF, or domain adaptation strategies.
  • Experience with enterprise AI platform architecture and internal developer platforms.
  • Prior experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience with a degree (Required)

Compensation

  • We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision plans
  • Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
  • Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
  • Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
  • Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
  • Life Insurance
  • Tuition Assistance - $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
  • Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
  • Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines for machine learning and AI workloads across development, staging, and production environments.
  • Implement AI safety guardrails, governance controls, content filtering, and responsible AI practices for enterprise healthcare environments.
  • Integrate enterprise data sources, healthcare systems, and knowledge repositories into secure GenAI workflows.
  • Collaborate with cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure teams to ensure secure and compliant deployment of GenAI solutions involving PHI and sensitive healthcare data.

This listing is sourced directly from Sentara Health's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.