Senior AI Engineer

Description

Who is USP?

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is an independent scientific organization that collaborates with the world’s leading health and science experts to develop rigorous quality standards for medicines, dietary supplements, and food ingredients. At USP, we believe that scientific excellence is driven by a commitment to fairness, integrity, and global collaboration. This belief is embedded in our core value of Passion for Quality and is demonstrated through the contributions of more than 1,300 professionals across twenty global locations, working to strengthen the supply of safe, high-quality medicines worldwide.

At USP, we value inclusive scientific collaboration and recognize that attracting diverse expertise strengthens our ability to develop trusted public health standards. We foster an organizational culture that supports equitable access to mentorship, professional development, and leadership opportunities. Our partnerships, standards, and research reflect our belief that ensuring broad participation in scientific leadership results in stronger, more impactful outcomes for global health.

USP is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer (EEOE) and is committed to ensuring fair, merit-based selection processes that enable the best scientific minds—regardless of background—to contribute to advancing public health solutions worldwide. We provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities and uphold policies that create an inclusive and collaborative work environment.

Brief Job Overview

We are seeking a high-energy, Senior AI Engineer focused on rapid prototyping of AI applications across the enterprise. Working as an independent contributor, you'll partner with our digital teams and enterprise platform teams — Oracle EBS ERP, Salesforce, Data Engineering, Cloud Commerce, Custom Applications, and Pega BPM — to identify high-value AI opportunities and turn them into working prototypes that demonstrate business impact.

This is a hands-on builder role for someone who thrives on breadth: one week you might prototype an intelligent document extractor for ERP invoice processing, the next a RAG-based knowledge assistant for customer service in Salesforce, and the next an agentic workflow inside Pega. You bring the AI expertise; the platform teams bring the domain and integration knowledge.

How will YOU create impact here at USP?

In this role at USP, you contribute to USP's public health mission of increasing equitable access to high-quality, safe medicine and improving global health through public standards and related programs. In addition, as part of our commitment to our employees, Global, People, and Culture, in partnership with the Equity Office, regularly invests in the professional development of all people managers. This includes training in inclusive management styles and other competencies necessary to ensure engaged and productive work environments.

As the Senior AI Engineer, your responsibilities include:

• Prototype AI solutions across USP's enterprise application landscape — LLM apps, RAG systems, intelligent agents, document AI, classification, summarization, and more.
• Partner with digital and enterprise platform teams (EBS, Salesforce, Data Eng, Cloud Commerce, Custom Apps, Pega) to identify pain points AI can address; jointly scope proofs-of-concept.
• Demonstrate business value through working prototypes, evaluations, and demos to IT leadership and business stakeholders — with clear metrics on quality, cost, and effort saved.
• Recommend production paths — advise which prototypes are ready to hand off to platform teams for productionization, what infrastructure/guardrails they'll need, and where USP should invest.
• Establish AI patterns and reusable components — prompt libraries, evaluation harnesses, connector patterns — so successful prototypes accelerate.
• Champion responsible AI — apply USP's AI Policy, ensure privacy/compliance considerations (21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA where relevant, data handling standards) are addressed from the prototype stage.
• Stay ahead of the field — evaluate emerging models, frameworks, and vendors; make informed recommendations aligned with USP's approved tech stack.

Who is USP Looking For?

The successful candidate will have a demonstrated understanding of our mission, commitment to excellence through inclusive and equitable behaviors and practices, ability to quickly build credibility with stakeholders, along with the following competencies and experience:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years building applied AI/ML solutions (LLM apps, RAG, agents, or classical ML in production or advanced prototypes), or equivalent experience.
• Strong Python; hands-on with modern AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, or equivalent).
• Direct experience with LLM APIs (Claude, GPT, Gemini, or similar), prompt engineering, and evaluation techniques.
• Experience building RAG pipelines with vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Azure AI Search, etc.).
• Comfort integrating with enterprise systems via REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven patterns.
• Cloud proficiency — AWS or Azure preferred; containerization (Docker) familiarity.
• Ability to work independently — scoping ambiguous problems, choosing tools, shipping working software without a dedicated team around you.
• Excellent communication — able to explain AI capabilities and limitations to non-technical stakeholders and translate business problems into AI approaches.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

Additional Desired Preferences

• Experience prototyping AI in regulated industries (pharma, healthcare, life sciences, standards bodies).
• Experience with agentic frameworks, tool use, and orchestration (LangGraph, CrewAI, Claude Agent SDK, etc.).
• Knowledge of MLOps practices — evaluation pipelines, model versioning, observability.
• Awareness of 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, GxP, or comparable compliance frameworks.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None, this is an individual contributor role.

Benefits

USP provides the benefits to protect yourself and your family today and tomorrow. From company-paid time off and comprehensive healthcare options to retirement savings, you can have peace of mind that your personal and financial well-being is protected.

Compensation

Base Salary Range: USD $100,042.00 – $142,560.00 annually.

Target Annual Bonus: % Varies based on level of role.

Individual compensation packages are based on various factors unique to each candidate’s skill set, experience, qualifications, equity, and other job-related reasons.

Note: USP does not accept unsolicited resumes from 3rd party recruitment agencies and is not responsible for fees from recruiters or other agencies except under specific written agreement with USP.

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Job Category Information Technology

Job Type Full-Time