Senior AI Solutions Lead
Arden Hills, MN, US, 55112
Additional Location(s): N/A
Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance
At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.
About the role:
Boston Scientific was recognized as a Glassdoor Best Place to Work in 2026, ranking No. 15 on the Top 100 list, reflecting the culture our employees experience every day.
Boston Scientific's Active Implantable Systems (AIS) R&D organization is seeking a Senior AI Solutions Lead to join our AI Transformation core team and translate engineering workflow requirements into AI solution designs. This is an exciting opportunitty to join a growing team that will enable the re-imaging of how work gets done across our R&D engineering functions. In this role, you will act as the domain-grounded bridge between our AIS R&D engineering functions (systems, software, hardware, reserach and PMO) and the AI Solutions Architect and AI Solutions Delivery roles, leading solution design for pilot workflows and coordinating input from domain subject matter experts.
You will evaluate tool configurations and integration patterns for each candidate workflow, support pilot design and evidence capture, and help validate results from the evaluation harness before workflows scale to production. The role requires strong hands-on applied AI or ML engineering skills combined with the ability to translate ambiguous engineering requirements into concrete, testable AI solution designs within a regulated product development environment.
Work model, sponsorship, relocation:
At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows an onsite work model requiring employees to be in our local office at least three days per week. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Translate engineering workflow requirements from AIS R&D domain SMEs into concrete AI solution designs.
- Evaluate tools, configurations and integration patterns for each candidate workflow, including build-versus-reuse recommendations.
- Lead and coordinate AIS R&D domain SME input throughout pilot design, evaluation and rollout.
- Support pilot design and evidence capture, including defining success criteria and test scenarios for candidate workflows.
- Validate results from the evaluation harness and help resolve issues identified during pilot testing.
- Design and deploy retrieval-augmented generation, context engineering and model integration patterns for engineering use cases.
- Partner with the AI Solutions Architect on architecture direction, and with AI Solutions Delivery on implementation and operational hand-off.
- Hand off validated domain playbooks to functional teams as workflows move from pilot to production.
- Contribute to a culture of ownership, experimentation and customer-centric solution design.
Qualifications:
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, data science or a related technical field.
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in AI/ML engineering, solution design or applied AI development, including recent hands-on work in generative AI.
- Proven experience designing and deploying large language model-based solutions, including retrieval-augmented generation, context engineering, and model integration.
- Experience translating business or engineering requirements into technical solution designs and working directly with subject matter experts.
- Experience building or supporting pilot evaluations, including defining success metrics and capturing evidence for go/no-go decisions.
- Experience working in a regulated, enterprise-scale environment with security, compliance and quality requirements.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical AI concepts to non-technical engineering stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications
- Proven experience with agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI or similar technologies.
- Familiarity with vector databases, embedding strategies and search optimization techniques.
- Hands-on experience with MLOps/LLMOps, including model monitoring, evaluation and lifecycle management.
- Experience in health care, life sciences, medical devices or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional technical SMEs across multiple engineering disciplines.
Requisition ID: 633249
Minimum Salary: $ 85000
Maximum Salary: $ 161500
The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com—will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.
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