Staff AI Engineer

Job overview

The Staff AI Engineer role is described as hybrid or remote aligned to Nova Biomedical’s business needs, with a listed location of Waltham, MA. Salary is $230,000 to $280,000 per year. The role is part of the Data & AI function and supports the company’s effort to scale enterprise AI capabilities. This senior hands-on technical leader designs and operationalizes AI applications, agents, and shared platform capabilities. The role establishes reusable engineering patterns and controls so business use cases can move into secure, maintainable production use, while mentoring engineers and partnering across technical and business teams.

What you'll do

• Design, build, deploy, and support AI agents, copilots, RAG applications, workflows, and automations
• implement reusable patterns for retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, monitoring, and integrations
• build shared AI platform components
• design access, telemetry, cost, audit, and responsible-AI controls
• partner with architecture, security, data, IT, quality, and business teams
• convert prototypes into production services with documentation and support procedures
• establish evaluation harnesses
• provide technical leadership, reviews, templates, and playbooks.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff ai engineer

artificial intelligence

ai platform engineering

ai agents

rag

llm engineering

python

enterprise ai

hybrid/remote

waltham ma

nova biomedical

$230k–$280k

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Staff-level technical leadership combines hands-on implementation with enterprise AI platform engineering, reusable standards, and mentoring.

About the employer

Nova Biomedical is hiring for this role. Industry: Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables. Sector: 33.