Director, AI Engineering & Innovation

WelbeHealth is a value-based healthcare organization thats transforming the future of senior care by providing an all-inclusive care option to our most vulnerable senior population.

The Director AI Engineering & Innovation provides strategic and technical leadership for WelbeHealths artificial intelligence and innovation program. This role is responsible for defining and executing an AI product roadmap that directly advances participant outcomes and operational excellence within our PACE model of care. The Director AI Engineering & Innovation translates WelbeHealths mission into a portfolio of AI-powered solutions overseeing their end-to-end delivery from ideation through production while leading and developing a team of AI Engineers. The Director serves as a senior thought partner to cross1functional stakeholders ensures all AI initiatives meet healthcare regulatory requirements and makes informed build-versus-buy decisions across the AI vendor landscape. The Director AI Engineering & Innovation is a member of the WelbeHealth leadership team and facilitates collaborative relationships across WelbeHealth and with external stakeholders to promote WelbeHealth values team culture and mission.

We care about our team members. Thats why we offer:

• Medical insurance coverage (Medical Dental Vision)
• Work/life balance - We mean it! 17 days of personal time off (PTO) 12 holidays observed annually and 6 sick days
• 401K savings match
• Comprehensive compensation package including base pay and bonus
• And additional benefits!

On the day-to-day you will:

• AI Product Roadmap: Define prioritize and maintain a multi-horizon AI innovation roadmap aligned to WelbeHealths mission of unlocking the full potential of our most vulnerable seniors.
• Cross-Functional Stakeholder Alignment: Partner with clinical operations compliance and technology leaders to identify high-impact AI opportunities secure organizational alignment and champion adoption of AI-powered solutions across the enterprise.
• Build vs. Buy Decision Authority: Evaluate and recommend make-versus-partner decisions across the AI and technology vendor landscape. Lead vendor assessments contract negotiations and ongoing governance for third-party AI tools and platforms.
• Innovation Scouting: Continuously monitor the evolving AI landscape frontier models agentic frameworks retrieval systems and healthcare-specific AI capabilities and proactively recommend emerging approaches that can improve participant outcomes operational efficiency or team productivity.
• AI Solution Delivery: Oversee the full development lifecycle for AI use cases from rapid proof-of-concept through validation iteration and production deployment. Maintain accountability for delivery quality timelines and technical standards across the AI engineering portfolio.
• Architecture Guidance: Provide hands-on technical direction for AI application architecture including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines agentic workflows enterprise LLM integration and secure cloud deployment patterns (primarily Azure).
• Healthcare Compliance: Ensure all AI systems and data practices adhere to HIPAA PHI handling requirements and the compliance standards unique to healthcare technology. Partner with legal compliance and security teams to embed privacy-by-design principles into every AI solution.

Job requirements include:

• Bachelors Degree required in Computer Science AI Computer Engineering or other relevant field; Masters Degree preferred
• Minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering applied AI development or software engineering with a strong AI focus including at least two (2) years in a technical leadership or people management role.
• Strategic leadership: Demonstrated ability to define and execute a technology or AI product roadmap align cross-functional stakeholders translate business and organizational goals into a sequenced portfolio of deliverable initiatives and present complex technical solutions to non-technical audiences.
• Enterprise LLM & AI application expertise: Proven track record designing building and deploying production-grade enterprise AI/LLM solutions on commercial platforms (OpenAI/Azure OpenAI Anthropic Claude Google Gemini) including prompt engineering RAG pipelines agentic frameworks and workflows AI assistants and multi1model orchestration.
• Cloud & infrastructure: Hands-on experience architecting and deploying AI services in secure cloud environments primarily Azure (Azure OpenAI / Azure AI); AWS a plus with a focus on scalability reliability and cost. Includes Docker private networking managed identities and DevOps/CI/CD pipelines.
• Python & technical depth: Advanced proficiency in Python for AI development with a strong software engineering background including API and service integration. Ability to engage credibly in hands-on technical design and code review with engineering staff.

COVID-19 Vaccination Policy

At WelbeHealth our mission is to unlock the full potential of our vulnerable this spirit please note that we have a vaccination policy for all our employees and proof of vaccination or a vaccine declination form will be required prior to employment. WelbeHealth maintains required infection control and PPE standards and has requirements relevant to all team members regarding vaccinations.

Our Commitment to Diversity Equity and Inclusion

At WelbeHealth we embrace and cherish the diversity of our team members and were committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer. People seeking employment at WelbeHealth are considered without regard to race color religion sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation marital or veteran status age national origin ancestry citizenship physical or mental disability medical condition genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) pregnancy or other status protected by applicable law.

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