Forward-deployed AI Engineer
AI summary of the role
SCAN is hiring a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer to embed with business teams, identify AI opportunities, and rapidly build and deploy production AI solutions across the organization.
What you’ll do
- Embed with SCAN teams to understand workflows, operational challenges, and strategic priorities.
- Lead discovery activities including stakeholder interviews, workflow observation, and opportunity assessment.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support AI-enabled applications using LLMs, AI agents, RAG, and workflow automation.
- Build production-ready software on SCAN's enterprise AI platform and reverse-integrate new capabilities.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Deep applied understanding of LLM architectures, RAG, vector embeddings, prompt engineering, and agent orchestration.
- Proficiency with Azure AI Services, Azure AI Foundry, and enterprise content management platforms (SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Teams, Confluence).
- Strong Python (or equivalent), REST APIs, ML/LLMOps tooling, and frameworks (FastAPI, LangChain, Microsoft Agent Framework).
Technologies
Azure AI Services · Azure AI Foundry · Azure OpenAI · RAG · LangChain · FastAPI · Python · Microsoft Agent Framework · Databricks · Snowflake
About SCAN
Nonprofit Medicare Advantage and senior-care platform combining health plans, PACE, in-home primary care, and street medicine for older adults and vulnerable populations.
Bootstrapped · 2000–5000 people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
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