ARPA-H Healthcare AI Agent Engineer / Scientist

Job Description

ECS is seeking a Senior Healthcare AI Agent Engineer / Scientist to support ARPA-H and work remotely .

Are you a passionate data scientist with a background in the clinical application of AI, and expertise in the current and next generations of Generative AI, Agentic AI, and medical Large Language Models (LLM)? Are you ready to support the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in their mission to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone by supporting complex and leading-edge R&D projects designed to arrive at high-impact solutions to society's most challenging health problems?

This Systems, Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) role will provide technical support to an ARPA-H Program Manager and a new program. As a Senior Healthcare AI Agent Engineer/Scientist, you will apply your expertise to help conceptualize, create, and execute government funded research and development programs to meet ARPA-H's mission to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone.

This SETA duties included but are not limited to:

• Contribute to a multidisciplinary team developing breakthrough Generative AI and agentic applications for the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic disease.
• Provide subject matter expertise in clinical application of AI, the current and next generations of Generative AI and Agentic AI applications.
• Evaluate technical proposals for scientific merit and innovation. Provide feedback, organize reviewer comments, draft recommendations and project summaries, and presentation materials.
• Perform market and regulatory analyses, technical due diligence, literature reviews and generate briefing documents summarizing technical topics related to AI, medical grade LLMs, Electronic Health Record (EHR) integration with AI, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation of AI Agents.
• Develop technical and administrative programmatic documentation on short timelines to communicate technical approach, progress, cost, schedule and risk for development of diagnostic grade AI agents.

Salary Range: $140,000 - $200,000

General Description of Benefits

Required Skills

• A PhD is preferred, MS with 2+ years or a BA with 4+ years is acceptable. Given the field of expertise, years of experience and professional certifications are likely valued over academic degrees. Further, an educational degree may not be required if the candidate's experience is sufficient to meet the requirements outlined above.
• Team oriented with exceptional communication, writing, and organizational skills.
• Experience in health care application development involving access to electronic health records (EHR) and/or use of EHR data.
• Experience in the development and/or evaluation of generative AI applications e.g., LLMs, AI agents.
• Familiarity with industry leaders and disrupters in advanced AI development (e.g. the AI development landscape).
• Remote is acceptable.

Desired Skills

• Prior experience supporting ARPA-like programs (e.g., DARPA, IARPA, APRA-E) or U.S. DoD advanced development programs is desired, but not required.

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