About this role
Summary: Design, evaluate, and optimize enterprise AI systems and Large Language Models. Responsibilities include implementing fine-tuning pipelines, building evaluation frameworks, and managing model governance using MLOps practices.
Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
A Day in the Life
As an IT Developer focused on Applied AI and Large Language Model engineering, you will design, evaluate, optimize, and operationalize enterprise AI systems across the complete model lifecycle. You will partner with platform engineers, data engineers, security teams, and domain experts to improve model quality, deploy production-ready AI solutions, establish evaluation frameworks, and drive measurable outcomes through data-driven experimentation and governance.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Design and implement training, fine-tuning, and adaptation pipelines for open-weight Large Language Models using supervised fine-tuning, LoRA, QLoRA, and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques.
- Build and curate high-quality datasets from operational data sources, incidents, runbooks, logs, knowledge articles, and validated interactions for model training and evaluation.
- Develop model evaluation frameworks covering reasoning, instruction following, hallucination detection, tool calling, safety, robustness, and structured output quality.
- Evaluate and optimize retrieval-augmented generation systems through retrieval analysis, embedding model comparison, reranking, chunking strategies, and groundedness assessment.
- Design and execute agent and tool-calling benchmarks that measure task completion, tool selection accuracy, failure recovery, and operational safety.
- Optimize model serving performance through quantization, batching strategies, cache management, inference tuning, and serving-stack evaluation.
- Implement experiment tracking, model governance, lineage management, release gating, and deployment workflows using enterprise MLOps practices.
- Establish production monitoring, quality drift detection, observability metrics, security testing, and rollback criteria for deployed AI solutions.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- 3+ years of IT experience with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, MCA, or MSc. with 3+ years of software engineering or machine learning experience, including 2+ years of hands-on Generative AI or Large Language Model development.
- Experience with Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, Datasets, PEFT, and model fine-tuning workflows.
- Experience implementing Large Language Model evaluation, retrieval-augmented generation, model benchmarking, and experiment tracking frameworks.
- Experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, REST APIs, and cloud or GPU-based model deployment environments.
- Experience with MLflow or Weights & Biases for experiment tracking, model lifecycle management, and artifact versioning.
Preferred Skills & Competencies :
- Experience with direct preference optimization (DPO), TRL, DeepSpeed, Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP), or distributed training techniques.
- Experience deploying and optimizing models using vLLM, NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, SGLang, or comparable inference-serving platforms.
- Experience with RAGAS, DeepEval, TruLens, or similar evaluation and observability frameworks.
- Experience in AI Ops, IT service management, incident management, observability platforms, knowledge systems, or automated remediation workflows.
- Experience implementing OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, model monitoring, security testing, and production release governance.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
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Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).