IntegriChain

Life Sciences

AIEngineer,ForwardDeployed

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“AI Engineer, Forward Deployed at IntegriChain. Skills: AI/LLM Application Development, Embedded Engineering, Consultative Problem Solving. Embed with internal departments. Understand workflows and pain points”

What You'll Achieve.

Drive efficiency, accuracy, and scale with AI; Deliver AI-powered solutions; Ensure reliability and performance of AI models; Inform the product roadmap; Support scaling to additional teams

Industry & Context.

Life Sciences
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshoot and debug AI models and pipelines; Identify and resolve coverage and availability hurdles; Manage pricing and forecasting complexity

Eligibility Requirements

Candidates must reside in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or New York, Be within a reasonable travel distance of our Philadelphia office, Regular in-person collaboration is required, Must have valid work authorization that does not require sponsorship

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years of software engineering or data application development experience, hands-on experience building AI/LLM-enabled applications, Demonstrated ability to work in an embedded, consultative capacity, understanding of LLM application patterns, Experience creating agents that can select tools, execute backend functions, summarize tool outputs, and continue multi-step workflows, Hands-on experience with advanced AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or similar developer-assistance tools, Python development skills, experience building modular, maintainable application code, Experience designing chat-based user interfaces or conversational workflows for business users, Understanding of token management, context-window design, LLM cost drivers, and model performance tradeoffs, Experience integrating AI applications with data platforms, APIs, SQL engines, or enterprise backend services, Ability to work cross-functionally, translating business and operational workflows into AI-assisted product features, communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, Comfortable operating as a hands-on individual contributor in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment with shifting priorities, troubleshooting and debugging skills for AI models and pipelines operating in live production environments

Nice to Have

Prior experience in a forward-deployed engineer, solutions engineer, or embedded technical consultant role, Experience working alongside operational or managed services teams to implement technology solutions, Experience with Snowflake Cortex Analyst, Cortex Complete, semantic models, or similar enterprise AI/data platform capabilities, Experience with Streamlit, FastAPI, React, or similar frameworks for AI/data application development, Experience deploying AI applications or services on AWS using containers, serverless components, managed secrets, IAM, and observability tooling, Experience with tool schema standards, structured JSON outputs, validation, and safe execution patterns, Experience in life sciences, healthcare, pharma commercialization, MDM, patient data, channel data, or commercial data platforms, Exposure to data visualization, analytics workflows, SQL generation, semantic layers, or natural-language-to-SQL products, Familiarity with evaluation frameworks, regression testing for prompts, and quality monitoring for AI features

What You'll Do.

Embed with internal departments

Understand workflows and pain points

Act as on-the-ground AI expert

Translate operational needs into AI requirements

Lead end-to-end AI solution implementation

Provide hands-on troubleshooting and support

Drive change management and adoption

Document operational AI use cases

Design and build LLM-powered features

Implement agent loops

Define and maintain tool schemas

Build orchestration logic

Create traceable AI experiences

Develop domain-aware system prompts

Optimize prompts for reliability

Understand LLM context windows

Monitor and improve model performance

Apply token and cost optimization techniques

Build production-quality chat interfaces

Integrate chart recommendations

Design graceful error handling

Partner with SRE and security teams

Design and support AI application deployment patterns in AWS

Implement backend services

Use Git-based development

Contribute to reusable AI engineering standards

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner directly with non-engineering business teams; Bridge communication between product engineering and internal stakeholders; Participate in team standups, process reviews, and strategic planning sessions; Collaborate with product and operational teams; Partner with SRE and security teams; Work with DevOps/SRE teams

Communication Scope

Translating business and operational workflows into AI-assisted product features; Communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

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