Senior AI/ML Engineer PDS Inc

• Rochester, Minnesota

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Updated 09/08/2026 Job Description Job Summary

Required Skills:

• Strong Python programming and SQL experience
• Hands-on experience building Generative AI or RAG-based applications
• Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, semantic search, query expansion, and citations
• Experience with ML/NLP model development, evaluation, and performance monitoring
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation metrics such as answer relevance, context relevance, faithfulness, hallucination reduction, and citation accuracy
• Experience implementing AI safety guardrails, content moderation, blocked topics, or escalation logic
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or OCI
• Experience with tools such as Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, BigQuery, Snowflake, OpenSearch, Cloud Run, Docker, Airflow, Terraform, or CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working with healthcare, claims, clinical, regulatory, life sciences, or enterprise data preferred
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• Master’s degree or higher preferred in Data Science, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Engineering, or a related field.

Relevant certifications or coursework in Generative AI, Machine Learning, Cloud AI platforms, Data Science, or MLOps are preferred

Compensation:

$80-85 hourly DOE We look forward to reviewing your application. We encourage everyone to apply - even if every box isn’t checked for what you are looking for or what is required.

PDSINC, LLC

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