AI​/LLM Developer​/Engineer

Job Title

Title: AI/LLM Developer/Engineer

Department: School of Nursing - 440100

Career Area: Information Technology

Posting Open Date: 10/23/2025

Final date to receive applications: 01/11/2026

Position Type: Temporary Staff (SHRA)

Position Number:

Vacancy : S026301

Full-time/Part-time: Full-Time Temporary

Hours Per Week: 40

Position Location: North Carolina, US

Hiring Range: $26.04 - $33.85 per hour

Estimated Duration Of Appointment: 6 months not to exceed 11 months

The Center for Virtual Care Value and Excellence (ViVE), led by Dr. Saif Khairat, is seeking an AI/LLM Developer/Engineer to join our AI research team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to innovative projects at the forefront of healthcare delivery improvement, leveraging large language models (LLMs) and clinical data analysis.

We are looking for individuals with a strong theoretical and practical background in large language models, machine learning, and natural language processing, combined with a collaborative spirit and a drive for problem‑solving. You’ll join a multidisciplinary team that values diversity and brings together expertise in software engineering, big data, clinical informatics, and medicine.

• Design, fine‑tune, and evaluate large language models (LLMs) tailored to domain‑specific applications using techniques such as transfer learning, LoRA, and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF).
• Build intelligent applications powered by LLMs, including chatbots, virtual agents, clinical decision tools, or document analyzers, using frameworks like Lang Chain, Llama Index, or semantic search pipelines.
• Develop scalable LLM pipelines and infrastructure, including data ingestion, preprocessing, model serving (via GPU/TPU), and continuous performance monitoring.
• Integrate commercial and open‑source LLMs (e.g., OpenAI GPT, Claude, Mistral, LLaMA) via APIs or local deployment into digital health or enterprise systems.
• Craft and iterate prompts using advanced prompt engineering and chain‑of‑thought strategies to improve output relevance, tone, factuality, and task completion.
• Implement retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) architectures to enhance context awareness using vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, FAISS, Weaviate).
• Evaluate LLM performance using automated and human‑in‑the‑loop methods to assess accuracy, hallucination, safety, and user satisfaction.
• Collaborate across disciplines with data scientists, UX designers, domain experts, and MLOps to ensure usability, performance, and alignment with real‑world needs.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, including latency, throughput, token usage, and model cost‑effectiveness across deployment environments.
• Stay current with advancements in generative AI, contributing to the internal knowledge base and driving adoption of best practices for ethical and responsible LLM use.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or closely related degree from an appropriately accredited institution and three years of experience in operations analysis and design, systems programming, or closely related area; or a:

• Bachelor’s degree from an appropriately accredited institution and four years of experience in operations analysis and design, systems programming or closely related area; or an Associate’s degree in Computer Information Technology, Computer Engineering Technology, or Networking Technology from an appropriately accredited institution and five years of experience in operations analysis and design, systems programming, or closely related area; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Journey level requires an additional one year of education or experience.
• Advanced level requires an additional two years of education or experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields.
• Expertise in Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and deep learning frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python and frameworks such as…