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About This Role
Our promise to you:
Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose\-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.
All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:
- Benefits from Day One: Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
- Paid Time Off from Day One
- 403\-B Retirement Plan
- 4 Weeks 100% Paid Parental Leave
- Career Development
- Whole Person Well\-being Resources
- Mental Health Resources and Support
- Pet Benefits
Schedule:
Full timeShift:
Day (United States of America)Address:
902 INSPIRATION AVECity:
ALTAMONTE SPRINGSState:
FloridaPostal Code:
32714Job Description:
Design and implement custom LLM workflows including prompt engineering, model fine\-tuning, instruction tuning, and retrieval\-augmented generation (RAG) to meet enterprise\-specific requirements. Own the full lifecycle of AI models from experimentation to deployment, monitoring, versioning, and continuous improvement using industry\-standard MLOps practices. Design and develop comprehensive technical plans and system architectures that effectively address identified problems and proposed AI\-driven solutions, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and alignment with organizational objectives. Build and maintain scalable AI/ML infrastructure including model registries, vector databases, embedding stores, experiment tracking tools, and inference pipelines. Evaluate, integrate, and deploy foundation models (commercial and open\-source) into production environments with clear performance, cost, and privacy tradeoff analysis. Architect and implement cloud\-native ML systems using platforms such as Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, or GCP Vertex AI; containerize and deploy models using tools like Docker, Kubernetes, or serverless frameworks. Work closely with data scientists, DevOps, software engineers, and business stakeholders to integrate AI models into existing applications and services with reliable APIs and monitoring. Design and develop secure, scalable middleware solutions and APIs to integrate enterprise systems with large language models and AI services. Leverage cloud\-native technologies to enable seamless orchestration of data and model workflows across distributed environments. Implement cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure\-as\-Code (IaC) principles with tools such as Terraform and Bicep. Automate deployment of secure, compliant, and cost\-optimized cloud resources to support AI model serving, vector stores, and data pipelines. Enforce enterprise\-grade security protocols across AI workflows, including access control, secret management, and policy\-as\-code. Ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory standards when integrating AI capabilities into production systems Establish observability frameworks to monitor latency, throughput, drift, accuracy, and resource consumption. Continuously optimize models for performance, efficiency, and user impact. Ensure models comply with ethical AI principles, data privacy regulations, and organizational governance frameworks. Document model behavior, limitations, and evaluation benchmarks. Stays up to date with advancements in AI algorithms, frameworks, natural language processing (NLP), and large language models (LLMs) to recommend innovative solutions.Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Strong experience with transformer\-based architectures (e.g., GPT, LLaMA, Mistral, Claude) and LLM customization techniques (LoRA, PEFT, instruction tuning, prompt chaining).\[Required]
- Proficiency in Python, ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow), and model management libraries (e.g., Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, OpenLLM).\[Required]
- Expertise in deploying ML models into production using CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud services (Azure, AWS, or GCP).\[Required]
- Knowledge of vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate) and RAG pipelines for enterprise search and contextualization.\[Required]
- Experience with MLOps platforms like MLflow, Weights \& Biases, SageMaker, or Azure ML for experiment tracking and model lifecycle orchestration.\[Required]
- Understanding of data pipelines, ETL/ELT practices, and feature store integration in AI systems.\[Required]
- Ability to evaluate trade\-offs between performance, cost, latency, and explainability in real\-world AI systems.\[Required]
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document systems and present findings to technical and non\-technical audiences.\[Required]
- Ability to quickly learn, experiment, and iterate on AI\-driven strategies. \[Required]
- Experience deploying LLMs in enterprise or regulated environments (e.g., healthcare, finance, government). \[Preferred]
- Familiarity with open\-weight foundation models and fine\-tuning at scale using distributed training frameworks (e.g., DeepSpeed, FSDP, Ray). \[Preferred]
- Knowledge of responsible AI toolkits (e.g., IBM AIF360, Fairlearn, Explainable AI tools) and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, GDPR).\[Preferred]
- Experience integrating AI models into user\-facing applications via APIs, SDKs, or microservices.\[Preferred]
Education:
- Bachelor's \[Required]
- Master's \[Preferred]
Field of Study:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field.
Work Experience:
- 5\+years of experience in machine learning or AI engineering roles, including direct involvement with model development, deployment, or integration into production systems. \[Required]
- Hands\-on experience developing, fine\-tuning, or integrating LLMs (e.g., OpenAI GPT, LLaMA, Mistral, Claude, Cohere) in applied setting .\[Required]
- Experience with cloud\-based platforms with a strong emphasis on AI/ML services(e.g., Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI).\[Required]
- 1\+ years of experience working with LLM orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI).\[Preferred]
- Experience with vector databases and building RAG pipelines for contextual AI use cases.\[Preferred]
- Experience in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, finance) with an understanding of privacy, compliance, and ethical AI implementation.\[Preferred]
- Certification in AI automation tools, or cloud\-based AI services.\[Preferred]
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Pay Range:
$96,266\.14 \- $179,045\.63 Background Screening Requirement (Florida Law)
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*This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti\-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances.*
Salary Context
This $96K-$179K range is below the median for AI/ML Engineer roles in our dataset (median: $175K across 2162 roles with salary data).
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About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 4,317 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 70% of the market. At AdventHealth Corporate, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills Required
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $214,900 based on 6,420 positions with disclosed compensation. Mid-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $194,400. This role's midpoint ($137K) sits 36% below the category median. Disclosed range: $96K to $179K.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $215,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $266,300. The 90th percentile reaches $320,790. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($287,500) and Research Engineer ($272,100). By seniority level: Entry: $110,000; Mid: $194,400; Senior: $227,400; Director: $274,554; VP: $241,000.
AdventHealth Corporate AI Hiring
AdventHealth Corporate has 1 open AI role right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer. Based in Altamonte Springs, FL, US. Compensation range: $179K - $179K.
Location Context
Across all AI roles, 15% (635 positions) offer remote work, while 3,657 require on-site attendance. Top AI hiring metros: New York (1,650 roles, $220,000 median); San Francisco (1,335 roles, $265,000 median); Los Angeles (708 roles, $214,112 median).
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 4,317 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 138 entry-level, 2,071 mid-level, 1,655 senior, and 453 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 15% of the market (635 positions). The remaining 3,657 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $215,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $266,300. The 90th percentile reaches $320,790. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($287,500 median, 34 roles); Research Engineer ($272,100 median, 227 roles); AI Engineering Manager ($244,000 median, 23 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 4,317 open positions across 15 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (3,004), Data Scientist (345), AI Software Engineer (309). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (138) are outnumbered by mid-level (2,071) and senior (1,655) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 453 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 15% of all AI roles (635 positions), with 3,657 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $215,000. Top-quartile roles start at $266,300, and the 90th percentile reaches $320,790. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $287,500 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $145,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (2,249 postings), Aws (1,224 postings), Azure (938 postings), Rag (915 postings), Gcp (660 postings), Pytorch (640 postings), Prompt Engineering (624 postings), Kubernetes (559 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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