Principal Engineer, AI Authoring

Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation, and they are seeking a highly skilled and visionary Principal Engineer, AI Authoring to join their AI Authoring Platform team. This role involves leading the design, development, and optimization of AI-driven content generation systems, focusing on technical architecture, performance, and compliance in the Life Sciences industry.

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain the end-to-end technical architecture for AI-assisted document generation, focusing on modular LLM integration, prompt engineering, and retrieval pipelines, while partnering closely with the AI Architect to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and scalability
• Build and optimize sophisticated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems that accurately pull from vast clinical and regulatory data sources to assist in document creation
• Engineer the data connectors and transformations required to feed structured and unstructured data into AI models for automated document population
• Develop and implement automated testing and validation frameworks to ensure AI-authored outputs meet the strict safety and compliance standards of the Life Sciences industry
• Rapidly prototype new AI authoring features, such as automated summarization or cross-document consistency checks, to determine technical viability before full-scale development
• Serve as the final escalation point for complex technical blockers, from debugging model hallucinations to optimizing cloud infrastructure for high-compute AI workloads