Python Developer – Agentic AI Infrastructure (AI/LLM Engineer) - Local/Hybr at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, Tennessee, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

26 Jun, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

28 Mar, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Python, Agentic AI, LLM, Infrastructure, Software Engineering, APIs, Containerized Environments, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Testing, Logging, Metrics, Security, Data Integration, RAG Pipelines, Workflow Orchestration

Industry

Hospitals and Health Care

Description

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. Organization: HealthIT AI Development Solutions Job Summary: This role will design, build, and operate production-grade agentic AI solutions and supporting infrastructure using Python. You will develop AI agents and workflows that securely leverage institutional data, systems, and tooling to automate routine technical and operational work, accelerate delivery of AI-enabled capabilities, and enable broader adoption through reusable components and patterns. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on taking concepts from prototype to production—iterating quickly while meeting enterprise expectations for security, reliability, maintainability, and documentation. . Key Responsibilities Design and implement agentic AI workflows and services in Python, including tool-using agents, orchestrated multi-step processes, and integration patterns. Build and maintain reusable frameworks/components for agent development (e.g., agent runners, tool registries, prompt/config management, evaluation harnesses). Integrate agents with enterprise data sources and systems in a secure, auditable manner (APIs, services, databases, and internal platforms as applicable). Develop and harden AI-enabled applications and supporting APIs for internal use, including deployments to OpenShift. Implement best practices for production readiness: testing, logging/metrics, error handling, performance considerations, and operational runbooks. Contribute to platform standards and reference implementations for agentic development (including patterns aligned with Model Context Protocol where applicable). Collaborate with stakeholders to translate use cases into technical requirements, iterate on solutions, and deliver measurable outcomes. Ensure appropriate documentation for all development and modifications, including architecture notes and operational guidance. Ensure integrity, confidentiality, and security of institutional data used by AI solutions (data handling, access controls, and policy-aligned implementations). Technical Capabilities (What Success Looks Like) Agentic AI / LLM Application Development Has built AI/LLM-enabled services beyond experimentation, with production considerations (latency, retries, fallbacks, rate limits, guardrails, and monitoring). Understands agent patterns (tool use/function calling, planning/execution loops, retrieval-augmented workflows, memory/state management, and evaluation). Python Application Development Delivers clean, testable Python code using modern tooling and best practices (typing, linting/formatting, packaging, dependency management). Able to debug complex issues across services, integrations, and runtime environments. Systems Integration & Secure Data Access Builds reliable integrations to internal/external systems using APIs and appropriate authentication/authorization patterns. Demonstrates good judgment with sensitive data and implements least-privilege access and audit-friendly patterns. Cloud/Platform Delivery Experience deploying and operating services in containerized environments; comfortable with CI/CD concepts and operational requirements. Familiarity deploying web services or internal apps to platforms such as OpenShift (or equivalent Kubernetes-based environments). Required Qualifications Professional experience developing production Python applications/services. Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) concepts and patterns. Experience implementing AI/LLM solutions (at least one of: agents, RAG pipelines, tool/function calling, workflow orchestration, LLM evaluation). Strong software engineering fundamentals: version control, code review, testing, documentation, and secure coding practices. Ability to work collaboratively across technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver iterative outcomes. Preferred / Nice-to-Have Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot) for tasks such as refactoring, test generation, debugging, and documentation. Experience with agentic development frameworks and/or building internal frameworks for reuse. Experience with Azure AI tooling (including Azure AI Foundry) and deploying LLM-backed solutions in enterprise environments. Experience integrating or extending Open WebUI (or similar internal chat/LLM front-ends). Open source experience (contributing to projects, maintaining internal open-source-style libraries, or publishing reusable tools). Experience with OpenShift and Kubernetes-native application patterns (health checks, resource limits, secrets/config management). Working Style & Collaboration Comfortable operating across prototype → production, with an emphasis on building reliable, reusable infrastructure. Pragmatic and iterative: able to deliver quickly while improving quality and maintainability over time. Values security, documentation, and operational readiness as first-class engineering responsibilities. What You’ll Deliver Production-ready agentic AI services and reusable building blocks that accelerate delivery across teams. Secure integrations that allow AI agents to act on institutional information appropriately and safely. A scalable foundation for broader adoption of agentic solutions across the organization. About the Department: Health IT HealthIT provides the best health information technology tools that support Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s mission of: Delivering distinctively personalized care Improving the health care of individuals and communities regionally, nationally and internationally Providing transformative learning programs Supporting compelling discoveries Our tools, which form the digital arteries of VUMC, are either developed in-house by our innovative product teams or selected from the most cutting-edge solutions available in today’s ever-changing marketplace. Our 500 colleagues provide ongoing support over each product’s entire lifespan, ensuring that the tools are meeting the evolving needs of the Medical Center’s 24,000 colleagues. Our solutions are driven by the incredible work and research of our colleagues throughout Vanderbilt and supported through a close partnership with VUMC Information Technology (VUMC IT). The strong collaboration among our teams means that VUMC can respond to clinical and operational issues with agility and innovation. Together, we ensure VUMC remains a leader in its pioneering use of healthcare information technology. Underscoring our entire department are our core values of accountability, transparency and execution, delivered with a strong Partner Promise. Our professional administrative functions include critical supporting roles in information technology and informatics, finance, administration, legal and community affairs, human resources, communications and marketing, development, facilities, and many more. At our growing health system, we support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt Health for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose. Core Accountabilities: Organizational Impact: Executes job responsibilities with the understanding of how output would affect and impact other areas related to own job area/team with occasional guidance. Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment. Breadth of Knowledge: Has expanded knowledge gained through experience within a professional area. Team Interaction: Provides informal guidance and support to team members. Core Capabilities : Supporting Colleagues:- Develops Self and Others: Invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to help improve performance e and gain knowledge in new areas.- Builds and Maintains Relationships: Maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen relationships.- Communicates Effectively: Recognizes group interactions and modifies one's own communication style to suit different situations and audiences. Delivering Excellent Services:- Serves Others with Compassion: Seeks to understand current and future needs of relevant stakeholders and customizes services to better address them.- Solves Complex Problems: Approaches problems from different angles; Identifies new possibilities to interpret opportunities and develop concrete solutions.- Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Provides ongoing support and coaching in a constructive manner to increase employees' effectiveness. Ensuring High Quality: - Performs Excellent Work: Engages regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly addresses quality issues promptly.- Ensures Continuous Improvement: Applies various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identifies ways to resolve them. - Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards from occurring. Managing Resources Effectively: - Demonstrates Accountability: Demonstrates a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure.- Stewards Organizational Resources: Applies understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area.- Makes Data Driven Decisions: Demonstrates strong understanding of the information or data to identify and elevate opportunities. Fostering Innovation:- Generates New Ideas: Proactively identifies new ideas/opportunities from multiple sources or methods to improve processes beyond conventional approaches.- Applies Technology: Demonstrates an enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools, and procedures to address short-term challenges.- Adapts to Change: Views difficult situations and/or problems as opportunities for improvement; actively embraces change instead of emphasizing negative elements. Position Qualifications: Responsibilities: Certifications: Work Experience: Relevant Work Experience Experience Level: 2 years Education: Bachelor's (Required) Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled. PEOPLE ARE AT THE HEART OF ALL WE DO. Our vision: The world leader in advancing personalized health. Our mission: personalizing the patient experience through our caring spirit and distinctive capabilities. Making Health Care Personal. We’re looking for like-minded individuals driven to make a difference. We invite you to explore careers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At VUMC, we place a priority on designing with and for our patients and families. We value collaboration, embrace continuous learning and discovery, and seek to be a place where everyone has the chance to thrive. We’re the largest private employer in Middle Tennessee, with a growing team and expanding footprint in towns and communities across the region. We employ more than 28,000 people who work in inpatient and outpatient clinical care, research, and graduate medical education as well as critical supporting roles in administration, information technology and informatics, finance, legal and community affairs, communications and marketing, fund-raising, groundskeeping and facilities, and many more. Our growing health system has more than 1,700 licensed hospital beds at: Vanderbilt University Hospital Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital It’s also home to hundreds of outpatient clinic and surgical locations throughout the region. We serve our community with many unique and specialized services including the Level 1 Trauma Center, a highly experienced Transplant Center that does the most heart transplants in the world, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Lung Institute, Burn Center and many more. World-leading academic departments and centers make scientific discoveries, advance clinical care and train the next generation of health care professionals. Our robust research enterprise consistently ranks among the highest in the country as measured by peer-reviewed grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. We’re honored to be consistently considered among the nation’s best hospitals, including being nationally ranked in multiple medical specialties for treating the most complex conditions in adults and children by US News and World Report. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt ranked as the No. 1 children’s hospital in the southeast in 2024. We support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at VUMC for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose. Join us in Making Health Care Personal.

Responsibilities

This role involves designing, building, and operating production-grade agentic AI solutions and supporting infrastructure primarily using Python. Key tasks include developing AI agents that securely leverage institutional data and systems to automate work and accelerate AI capability delivery.