Applied Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Job description

*This position does not provide sponsorship for employment now, or in the future, in any format. Position Summary: The Applied Artificial Intelligence Engineer is part of the Education Design and Informatics team within the Office of Health Sciences Education at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The Education Design & Informatics Team (EDI) is responsible for technology, instructional design, data infrastructure, and quality improvement for Vanderbilt's MD program and affiliated health professions education. We maintain a comprehensive education data lake in Databricks, a custom digital learning platform (VSTAR), and a vision for AI-augmented medical education that we're ready to operationalize. We're seeking an AI Engineer to help us realize our vision for precision medical education—using data and AI to personalize learning, predict learner needs, and improve educational outcomes at scale. You'll be our first dedicated AI/ML role, working alongside a data engineer, full-stack developers, and instructional designers to build intelligent features into our products. Near-term priorities include LLM-powered tools for learners and educators, semantic search across educational...