Sr. Director of AI Engineering, Change Healthcare

Location: Seattle, WA

Posted: 8/2020

Transforming the future of healthcare isn’t something we take lightly. It takes teams of the best and the brightest, working together to make an impact. As one of the largest healthcare technology companies in the U.S., we are a catalyst to accelerate the journey toward improved lives and healthier communities. Here at Change Healthcare, we’re using our influence to drive positive changes across the industry, and we want motivated and passionate people like you to help us continue to bring new and innovative ideas to life.

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If you’re ready to embrace your passion and do what you love with a company that’s committed to supporting your future, then you belong at Change Healthcare. Pursue purpose. Champion innovation. Earn trust. Be agile. Include all.

We're looking for a world class AI Software Engineering Leader to joined us in the effort of building our Healthcare financial management AI platform and solutions. You will lead a team of software engineers specialized in AI platform building and working with Data Scientists for AI solutions building. You will work with AI Product, AI Engineering peers to provide in depth engineering know-how and execute with quality and speed to support Change Healthcare’s business and our customers, successful build the salable performing AI Platform and solutions for Healthcare financial management.

Description

Responsibilities:

• Work with AI team leaders, product, peer engineering teams, build the vision, strategy, and technical roadmap of AI platform and AI solutions to drive major impact to our business

• Build the state of art AI platform, continuously adopting the latest large community backed opensource functional components and with customization to support Healthcare AI solutions

• Ensure engineering design are guided by high performance, scalability, security, following the strict healthcare policy compliance, with low cost.

• Innovate to build the healthcare finical management AI platform, including Conversational AI Platform and providing services for internal solutions and external customers.

• Agile through experimentation, prototyping, and solid execution.

• Define and track key success metrics for the AI Platforms.

• Work with management to prioritize business and AI platform needs.

• Share with management and peers on potential new improvement opportunities

• Integrate the AI platforms with existing and evolving data platforms

• Build the AI platform in cloud environment and stay current with the industry best open source development

• Engage directly on all aspects of building the platform – including infrastructure (Compute, Storage, Networking), data ingestion (batch and streaming), ETL, AI libraries, inference engine, offline training pipeline, orchestration, operation and optimization

Key Qualifications/Education

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or closely related software engineering field

• Excellent track record (10+ years) of delivering AI platform and solution products, including core AI platform, conversational AI platform, and AI solutions for ecommerce

• Extensive hands-on experience (10+ years) in building software and AI platform/solutions, able to translate business requirement into clean/logical design, strong skills in coding, design and code review, sprint management, DevOps; able to deliver under pressure

• Technical expertise in data and AI: strong knowledge in AI platform building, AI solution building with AI data scientists, A/B testing, POC, Agile process

• Experience with AWS Storage/Compute/DB, Kubernetes, Spark, Docker, Flint, Kafka, Kubeflow, TF Serving, TensorFlow, Pytorch, Spark MLib, Scikit-learn, Apache MXNet, Jupyter, Splunk, Grafana, Cloud Watch, etc

Other skills/experience that help

• Strong leadership and teamwork skills, able to lead by principles, and use your technical and people skills to help team members to perform, deliver, and grow

• Foster open, respectful, collaborative culture. Bias to action, customer obsessed, always willing to go extra miles to meet customers’ needs

• A strategic thinker and planner who can help craft plans to multiple stakeholders. can lead change, operate effectively within a dynamic organization

• Strengths in meeting objectives through influence, facilitation and team building

• Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with key product partners and your engineering peers

• Excellent communication skills: ability to translate robust analytics and metrics into simple to understand takeaways, and present findings to management and business partners

• A great collaborator who can work across operating styles and can bring together multiple perspectives, able to handle conflicts with best interests of company and customers in mind

• Experience in healthcare and financial payment systems development is a plus