AI Applied Health System Engineer

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Business Unit: Rush Medical Center

Hospital: Rush University Medical Center

Department: D&IS Innovation

Work Type: Full Time (Total FTE between 0.9 and 1.0)

Shift: Shift 1

Work Schedule: 8 Hr (9:00:00 AM - 5:00:00 PM)

Rush offers exceptional rewards and benefits learn more at our Rush benefits page (https://www.rush.edu/rush-careers/employee-benefits).

Pay Range: $41.88 - $62.40 per hour
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Summary:
The Applied AI Health System Engineer is a hands-on technical role focused on developing, implementing, and operationalizing AI, Generative AI, and machine learning solutions across healthcare systems. This role supports applied use case development spanning clinical decision support, population health analytics, revenue cycle automation, clinical research, and operational efficiency.

Working closely with clinical, data science, engineering, and operational stakeholders, this position translates healthcare challenges into scalable, compliant, and production-ready AI solutions. The role plays a critical part in advancing responsible AI adoption within a complex, regulated healthcare environment.

Key Responsibilities

Applied AI & Solution Development

• Contribute to the design and development of AI, GenAI, and ML solutions for healthcare use cases, including data preparation, analytical modeling, prompt engineering, and RAG pipeline development
• Support implementation of AI use cases across clinical, financial, and operational domains
• Assist in building, testing, and deploying AI solutions using Python and modern AI frameworks

• Process and analyze structured and unstructured healthcare data (e.g., clinical notes, claims, EHR, ADT feeds) for AI/ML applications
• Collaborate with engineers and data scientists to integrate AI solutions into existing health system platforms

• Work closely with clinical stakeholders and business partners to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Support proof of concepts, pilots, and production deployments across healthcare domains
• Participate in cross-functional teams to ensure solutions align with clinical workflows and organizational priorities

• Contribute to testing, validation, and performance monitoring of AI models and applications
• Document workflows, methodologies, and technical solutions to enable scalability and knowledge transfer
• Operate within established MLOps, governance, and compliance frameworks to ensure reliable and responsible AI solutions

Required Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Health Informatics, or a related field
• 3–5 years of experience in AI/ML, data science, or software engineering
• Experience working with Python and common AI/ML libraries
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

• Experience with healthcare data or working within a health system
• Familiarity with LLM frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex), RAG pipelines, embeddings, and vector databases
• Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and ML tooling
• Understanding of healthcare workflows such as clinical operations, revenue cycle, or population health
• Familiarity with MLOps concepts including CI/CD, monitoring, and governance

Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Salary : $42 - $62