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This role combines hands-on engineering, applied solution delivery, and cross-functional collaboration to help establish secure, scalable, governed, and practical AI capabilities that support real business processes.\nThis role applies engineering judgment across a broad and evolving set of activities, including platform configuration, integrations, governed data access, retrieval pipelines, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. The AI Engineer works closely with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Data, Operations, and business stakeholders to translate emerging AI capabilities into secure and compliant business outcomes.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDesign, operate, and continuously improve enterprise AI platforms, services, integrations, and governance capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and reliable AI adoption\n\nAdminister and support AI platforms, agent services, and enterprise controls, including identity, access management, observability, provisioning, lifecycle management, and governance workflows\n\nImplement and maintain security controls, auditing capabilities, data protection measures, and compliance guardrails in partnership with Cybersecurity, Data, Infrastructure teams\n\nDesign and develop secure integrations that enable AI applications and agents to interact with approved enterprise systems, tools, and governed data assets\n\nScope, build, deploy, and support AI applications, copilots, and agentic workflows that address business needs while operating within established technical and governance guardrails\n\nDevelop and maintain retrieval-based and tool-enabled AI solutions using approved knowledge sources and governed data assets to support accurate, traceable, and reproducible outcomes\n\nEstablish and execute evaluation, monitoring, testing, and continuous improvement practices that ensure AI solutions remain effective, reliable, and fit for purpose\n\nMaintain production engineering practices, including code quality, deployment pipelines, instrumentation, version control, operational readiness, and platform reliability\n\nDrive enablement and scale by providing design guidance, reusable patterns, reference implementations, documentation, and practical support for internal builders and stakeholders\n\nComply with FMI's attendance policies\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree and 2+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production software platforms or cloud solutions on Azure and/or AWS, including at least 2 years developing and supporting LLM-powered applications in production environments\n\nStrong software engineering and cloud platform expertise, including Python, APIs, CI/CD, containers, infrastructure as code (Terraform), version control, observability, and secure deployment practices\n\nHands-on experience designing enterprise AI solutions, including prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool calling, context engineering, evaluation frameworks, agentic workflows, and production AI application delivery\n\nDemonstrated experience implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and enterprise knowledge solutions, including content ingestion, embeddings, vector search, re-ranking, grounding strategies, and evaluation of AI-generated outputs\n\nExperience integrating AI platforms with enterprise systems and governed data, including authentication and authorization patterns, MCP or equivalent tool integration frameworks, APIs, OAuth, and secure access controls\n\nStrong knowledge of enterprise AI, cloud, and security platforms, including Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service and/or AWS Bedrock, Entra ID, managed identities, IAM, Conditional Access, and related governance and compliance controls\n\nProven ability to work effectively with business, data, security, and technology stakeholders, translating requirements into practical solutions while operating within established governance, risk, compliance, and operational guardrails\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience developing or operating AI, data, or software platforms in regulated industries such as healthcare, biotechnology, genomics, pharmaceuticals, or financial services\nFamiliarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks including HIPAA, GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, validated systems, audit trails, and emerging AI regulations\nExperience with AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Anthropic Claude, Bedrock AgentCore, Claude Code, or similar enterprise AI technologies\nFamiliarity with AI governance, evaluation, and risk management frameworks such as NIST AI RMF\nExperience with fine-tuning, distillation, open-weight models, or cost- and latency-optimized AI deployments\nContributions to open-source AI tooling, agent frameworks, MCP servers, or evaluation frameworks\nRelevant Microsoft or AWS certifications\nDemonstrated commitment to responsible AI, security and compliance\nUnderstanding of HIPAA and the importance of patient data privacy\nCommitment to reflect FMI’s values: Integrity, Courage, and Passion\nThe expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Boston, MA is $111,040 - $138,800 per year. 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