Staff AI Engineer
- 🇮🇳 India
- Hybrid
- Staff / Principal
- 2 days ago
- AI
- EHR
- Machine Learning
- RAG
- AI/ML
- Vector Search
- Python
- PyTorch
- Hugging Face
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- LlamaIndex
- CI/CD
- AWS
- Databricks
- MLflow
- OCR
- FHIR
- HL7
- X12
- EDI
- HIPAA
- OpenAI
Join the Team Modernizing Medicine
At ModMed, we’re not just building software—we’re reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.
A Culture of Excellence
When you join ModMed, you’re joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction.  From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida, and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India, we are a team of 4,500+ passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes:
Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work
2025 Globee Business Awards: Gold Globee for “Technology Team of the Year”
2025 Black Book Awards:Â Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties
Florida Venture Forum:Â Venture-Backed Company of the Year
We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started.
Ready to modernize medicine with us?
Job Description Summary:
Why ModMed?
At ModMed, we are on a mission to place doctors and patients at the center of care through an intelligent, specialty-specific cloud platform. We envision a world where our software increases medical-practice success and improves patient outcomes.
We don't just build code; we innovate boldly to save time for healthcare providers so they can focus on what matters most. If you want to align your passion with purpose and use AI to do good in the world, you belong here.
The Opportunity
We are looking for aStaff AI Engineer who dreams big, thinks strategically, and builds hands-on. In this role, you will help define and architect the next generation of AI capabilities at ModMed—fromGenerative AI and LLM applications to Agentic AI, RAG, and intelligent automation.
You will operate as atechnical leader and hands-on engineer, solving complex problems, establishing scalable AI patterns, and taking AI capabilities from concept to reliable production systems. You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and healthcare domain experts to turn emerging AI technologies into meaningful customer outcomes.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Architect AI Innovation: Design and build scalable, production-gradeLLM, Generative AI, and Agentic AI solutions that solve complex healthcare and medical-practice workflows.
- Build AI Systems End-to-End: Lead the architecture and implementation ofRAG pipelines, AI agents, orchestration, tool calling, document intelligence, and intelligent automation from prototype through production.
- Engineer for Reliability: Establish robust approaches forLLM evaluation, grounding, guardrails, observability, security, latency, and cost optimization to ensure AI systems are reliable and production-ready.
- Solve Complex Problems: Apply advancedprompt engineering, model selection, fine-tuning, retrieval strategies, and ML techniques to address specialty-specific healthcare challenges.
- Drive Technical Excellence: Define reusable AI engineering patterns, architecture standards, and best practices that can be adopted across ModMed's AI initiatives.
- Lead Without Authority: Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and domain experts to influence technical direction, make architecture decisions, and drive successful delivery of high-impact AI initiatives.
- Mentor & Multiply: Mentor senior and junior engineers, conduct technical design reviews, and raise the engineering and AI maturity of the broader organization.
- Innovate Responsibly: Help ensure AI solutions aresecure, explainable, governable, and appropriate for healthcare, with strong attention to privacy, compliance, and responsible AI practices.
What You Bring to the Team
The Essentials:
- Experience: 8+ years of experience in AI/ML, Machine Learning, Data Science, or Software Engineering, with significant hands-on experience building production AI systems.
- Generative AI Expertise: Deep hands-on experience withLLMs, Generative AI, RAG, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, and AI agents.
- Technical Mastery: Strong proficiency inPython and experience with modern AI/ML frameworks such asPyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or equivalent technologies.
- AI Architecture: Proven ability to designscalable, reliable AI/ML architectures and translate ambiguous business problems into production-ready technical solutions.
- Production Engineering: Strong software engineering fundamentals, includingAPIs, distributed systems, testing, CI/CD, observability, and production operations.
- Cloud & ML Platforms: Experience deploying AI/ML solutions at scale usingAWS or equivalent cloud platforms, with experience in platforms such asDatabricks, MLflow, SageMaker, or similar technologies.
- AI Evaluation & Quality: Strong understanding ofLLM evaluation, hallucination mitigation, grounding, model quality, and AI observability.
- Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and technical direction, mentor engineers, and lead complex initiatives without necessarily having direct people-management responsibility.
Bonus Points:
- Experience buildingmulti-agent / Agentic AI systems with orchestration, planning, memory, and tool use.
- Experience withdocument intelligence, OCR, document classification, information extraction, and multimodal AI.
- Experience working withhealthcare AI, clinical workflows, medical data, RCM, billing, or claims.
- Familiarity with healthcare standards such asFHIR, HL7, X12/EDI, or similar healthcare data formats.
- Experience withHIPAA, healthcare data privacy, AI security, and responsible AI.
- Experience working with foundation models such asOpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, Mistral, or equivalent.
- Experience optimizingLLM inference cost, latency, scalability, and reliability.
Our Culture & Values
We believe inThinking Big and Having Fun. At ModMed, you'll find a team that is high-performing but humble. We move fast to make things happen, but we never lose sight of our goal: to save time for doctors and improve the lives of patients.
As a Staff AI Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to shape not just individual AI solutions, buthow ModMed builds and scales AI across the organization.
We align passion with purpose. Come help us build the future of healthcare.
ModMed Benefits Highlight: At ModMed, we believe it’s important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:
- Meals & Snacks: Enjoy complimentary office lunches & dinners on select days and healthy snacks delivered to your desk,
- Insurance Coverage: Comprehensive health, accidental, and life insurance plans, including coverage for family members, all at no cost to employees,
- Allowances: Annual wellness allowance to support your well-being and productivity,
- Earned, casual, and sick leaves to maintain a healthy work-life balance,
- Bereavement leave for difficult times and extended medical leave options,
- Paid parental leaves, including maternity, paternity, adoption, surrogacy, and abortion leave,
- Celebration leave to make your special day even more memorable, and company-paid holidays to recharge and unwind.
PHISHING SCAM WARNING:ModMed is among several companies recently made aware of a phishing scam involving imposters posing as hiring managers recruiting via email, text and social media. The imposters are creating misleading email accounts, conducting remote "interviews," and making fake job offers in order to collect personal and financial information from unsuspecting individuals. Please be aware that no job offers will be made from ModMed without a formal interview process, and valid communications from our hiring team will come from our employees with a ModMed email address(first.lastname@modmed.com). Please check senders’ email addresses carefully. Additionally, ModMed will not ask you to purchase equipment or supplies as part of your onboarding process. If you are receiving communications as described above, please report them to theFTC website.
ModMed Technologies India Private Limited follows a strict, merit-based and transparent recruitment process conducted only through official and authorized channels.
We do not:
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All official communication is made only through verified channels, our website, and recognised recruitment platforms.
We strongly advise candidates not to share personal/financial information or make any payments in response to suspicious communications. Any such instances may be reported to us athrcompliance@modmed.com .
ModMed Technologies India Private Limited will not be responsible for any loss arising from fraudulent or unauthorised communications.
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