Principal Healthcare AI Developer

The Data Platforms Health team builds native platform solutions that enable healthcare-specific platform capabilities. This development role in the Database Platforms department will contribute to AI-based features and workflows within the InterSystems Health Connect Cloud InterSystems FHIR Server InterSystems IRIS for Health and InterSystems Health Connect products.

The team needs a developer who can drive AI model and AI architecture design and development for intelligent tooling features for healthcare builders and administrators. The team also needs thought leadership to adopt evolving AI technologies so that InterSystems can be a leader in AI-driven features and workflows.

You are encouraged to apply if this role sounds interesting to you even if you have doubts about being a competitive candidate. InterSystems prides itself on investing in its team members.

This position is in the InterSystems headquarters in Boston MA.

Responsibilities

You will design build train and deploy machine learning and agentic AI models and consume LLMs and custom models using REST APIs. Working with product management and support specialists you will design and implement data cleansing and feature extraction tools to improve the accuracy of predictions and data generation for a healthcare setting. Your responsibilities will include integrating the models into existing products and refining the models to meet evolving product needs.

All work must follow the team’s development workflow including use of source control design and code reviews and clear documentation. You are responsible for the quality of your code and must design automated tests to verify the effectiveness of the models and features.

This role will require you to respond to technical questions about expected product behavior and recommended best practices from support specialists and sales engineers. You will also collaborate with the release engineering team to ensure that your model and tools are appropriately deployed in cloud and on-prem environments.

The technology stack includes Python AWS Bedrock ObjectScript and InterSystems IRIS.

As a leader you are expected to create project plans with estimates track execution against the plan and proactively communicate anticipated delays in the project. With support from your manager you will coordinate with other teams and overcome blockers and inter-team misalignments to deliver your projects. You will also provide thought leadership in the areas of Gen AI agentic AI and other evolving technologies and encourage other team members to adopt these technologies for the platform.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of hands-on professional experience as a software developer or similar. Open to considering less experience in combination with a Graduate degree.
• Experience with data analysis data cleansing feature extraction and model training.
• Experience with Python and common libraries like Pandas NumPy and Scikit-learn.
• Experience with model training and evaluation.
• Experience with Agent orchestration and runtime MCP tool registration and multi-model routing.
• Experience with design or consumption of REST APIs.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Self-starter with curiosity to experiment and learn and confidence to challenge the status quo.
• Professional experience with machine learning algorithms like neural networks and LLMs.
• Professional experience with programmatic access of LLMs and/or open-source models.
• Experience with observability of model performance and runtime costs.
• Experience with model governance and design of guardrails for model security.
• Professional experience with deep learning libraries like TensorFlow PyTorch or Keras.
• Professional experience with health messaging standards especially FHIR.
• 3+ years of experience with other programming languages like Java C# C++ or ObjectScript.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate because of race color religion sex national origin ancestry marital status veteran status age disability sexual orientation or gender identity or expression or any other legally protected category. InterSystems is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.

What We Do

InterSystems builds the software that makes complex systems work—reliably securely and at scale. For more than 45 years we’ve been the information engine behind some of the world’s most mission-critical applications in healthcare government and business. Our data management integration and analytics technologies help organizations connect disparate systems turn data into insight and deliver better outcomes. From enabling interoperable healthcare and advancing clinical care to powering national infrastructure and large-scale enterprise systems our technology is used every day by millions of people in more than 80 countries. What sets InterSystems apart is not just what we build but how we build it. We focus on long-term innovation deep engineering excellence and solving hard problems that truly matter. Our teams work closely with customers to tackle real-world challenges—often behind the scenes but always at the heart of what keeps essential systems running. If you’re motivated by meaningful work technical depth and the opportunity to have a global impact you’ll find it here.

Why Work With Us

Because we are a profitable privately-held software company we place our clients first in everything we do. You’ll work on meaningful complex problems alongside deeply curious experts in a culture that values learning ownership and long-term growth—without the pressure of quarterly Wall Street demands.

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