Senior AI/ML Engineer

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Cytel · 1 day ago

Senior AI/ML Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Cytel is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy scalable AI-enabled solutions that enhance and automate Statistical Programming workflows. The role focuses on Generative AI, RAG, and agentic solutions, while partnering with cross-functional teams to move proofs of concept into secure, validated, production-ready environments.

ConsultingSoftware

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and develop AI-enabled solutions for Statistical Programming, contributing to a scalable, modular, secure, and reusable architecture across multiple studies and use cases

Build end-to-end Generative AI and agentic workflows encompassing data and metadata ingestion, retrieval, reasoning, tool use, code generation, execution, validation, and human review

Develop RAG and knowledge-driven solutions that integrate organizational standards, metadata, specifications, historical study assets, programming conventions, and other approved knowledge sources

Develop modular AI services, APIs, and reusable components, appropriately separating deterministic business rules and standards from probabilistic AI/LLM-based reasoning and generation

Implement controls for AI reliability, reproducibility, and quality, including structured inputs/outputs, prompt and model versioning, validation rules, automated evaluation, regression testing, and quality checks of AI-generated artifacts

Build traceability and human-in-the-loop capabilities supporting review, approval, feedback, exception handling, audit trails, and lineage from source information and retrieved context through generated outputs

Support deployment and LLMOps practices across development, testing, validation, and production environments, including Git/CI/CD, monitoring, logging, model and prompt lifecycle management, security, and performance/cost optimization

Collaborate with Statistical Programming, Enterprise Architecture, IT/Cloud, Security, Validation, and Governance teams to transition AI proofs of concept into scalable enterprise solutions while evaluating emerging AI technologies and architectural patterns

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

Generative AI/LLMRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Agentic AI WorkflowsPrompt/Context EngineeringEmbeddingsVector SearchPythonAPI DevelopmentGitAutomated TestingCI/CDAWS

Required

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science

5+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, AI/ML engineering, data engineering, or related technical roles, with demonstrated experience building and deploying production-quality applications

Hands-on experience developing Generative AI/LLM solutions, with knowledge of RAG, prompt/context engineering, embeddings, vector search, structured outputs, tool/function calling, and agentic AI workflows

Strong programming skills in Python and experience with modern software engineering practices, including modular design, APIs, Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and preferably containerized/cloud-based applications

Experience working with AWS and familiarity with cloud-based AI/ML services, data storage, security/access controls, logging, and monitoring

Understanding of AI reliability and evaluation concepts, including reproducibility, hallucination mitigation, validation, prompt/model versioning, automated evaluation, regression testing, traceability, and human-in-the-loop approaches

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work across technical and business teams

Good communication and organizational skills required

Preferred

experience in pharmaceutical/biotechnology or regulated environments and familiarity with clinical data, Statistical Programming, SAS/R, CDISC/SDTM/ADaM, or GxP principles is preferred but not required

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Remote workplace type

Company

Cytel

Glassdoor

3.9

Data-science CRO for clinical trial design and drug development.

Founded in 1987

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.cytel.com

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Product Management

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Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$2M

Key Investors

New Mountain CapitalMerck Capital Ventures

2020-12-21Acquired

2017-11-01Private Equity

2005-02-17Series Unknown

• $2M

Leadership Team

Cyrus Mehta

Co-Founder and President

Nitin Patel

Chairman and Chief Technology Officer

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