Job#: 3036992

Job Description:

Location: REMOTE

We are hiring a Platform Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure, orchestration, integrations, and guardrails that enable conversational, agentic, and automation AI systems to run securely, reliably, and at scale in a healthcare environment. This is a foundational role within a small, high-impact AI pod. The individual will build the platform capabilities needed to productionize AI solutions and will also serve as a technical leader and mentor.

• Design and build infrastructure for conversational AI systems, agentic workflows, automation pipelines, and real-time systems.
• Develop scalable and reliable systems for deploying AI applications.
• Build and manage orchestration layers for multi-step AI workflows, agent execution, and asynchronous processing.
• Design and implement secure integrations across enterprise systems, external services, and internal APIs.
• Build and enforce system-level guardrails, including input/output validation and secure execution environments.
• Ensure systems meet data privacy requirements and internal governance standards, enabling auditability and traceability.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting for AI interactions, workflow execution, and system performance.
• Support data ingestion and processing pipelines for AI systems, including managing infrastructure for document storage and vector databases.
• Act as a role model for engineering best practices, mentoring developers in backend engineering and AI system infrastructure.

Experience:

• Strong experience in backend or platform engineering.
• Proven experience building production-grade distributed systems.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, asynchronous or event-driven systems, and workflow orchestration systems.
• Experience integrating enterprise systems and external APIs/services.
• Experience supporting or working with AI/ML systems in production.
• Experience working in healthcare or other regulated environments.

Technical Skills:

• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with LLM-based applications, multi-step AI workflows or agent systems, and RAG or data-driven AI pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data privacy requirements and building compliant, auditable systems.

• Experience with cloud platforms, with Azure being preferred.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools and distributed system design patterns.
• Familiarity with vector databases, streaming or real-time systems, and AI orchestration frameworks.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

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