Technical Advisor, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer
On-siteKigali, Kigali, Rwanda
Job Summary
Design, train, and optimize machine learning and deep learning models to strengthen Rwanda's health system with AI capabilities. Deploy production-grade AI solutions into secure environments, establish monitoring pipelines for concept drift, and integrate scalable architectures with national digital health platforms including EMRs and HMIS. Manage large structured and unstructured datasets, enforce bias detection, and conduct rigorous clinical validation to ensure model accuracy and regulatory compliance. Collaborate with the Ministry of Health National Health Intelligence Center and data scientists to translate public health priorities into actionable applications, while documenting workflows and supporting technical reviews. Report to the NHIC Health AI lead and work within a diverse team focused on universal health coverage and sustainable health financing.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree (or higher) in AI, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Biomedical Engineering, Health Informatics or a closely related field
- A minimum of 6 years' experience in Applied Machine learning, AI system development and production-grade deployments
- Strong experience in APIs, data pipelines, training workflows, deployment, maintenance and ML frameworks and systems integration
- Hands-on experience across the full LLM stack, including model pretraining, fine-tuning, evaluation, and serving
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable model evaluation frameworks, including model-based assessment techniques
- Advanced knowledge of reinforcement learning, including algorithm design, environment interaction, and performance evaluation
- Strong engineering capabilities for rapid iteration on data pipelines, training workflows, deployment, and maintenance
- Proven experience deploying and sustaining healthcare IT systems or medical AI agents in real-world environments
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