Software Engineer – Veterinary AI

In summary, the AI Software Engineer plays a critical role in bringing AI to life, combining strong software development skills with a deep understanding of machine learning and data science to build, deploy, and maintain intelligent systems that solve real-business problems. We need a self-directed Software Engineer who loves animals, data exploration, and OpenAI-powered tooling. You’ll own projects end-to-end: generating ideas, prototyping quickly, and iterating until something sticks

Training

CAP Certification or Microsoft Certification a plus

Licensure

N/A

Knowledge of:

Statistical analysis, data manipulation, and database querying

Ability to (required skills):

• Programming experience and strong knowledge of various programming languages is essential (i.e., Python, Java & Apache Spark & Python3)
• Database Modelling, Data Warehousing and Data Processing skills
• Ability to identify business problems, develop analytical approaches and develop solutions
• Strong communication skills to be able to explain complex technical problems to technical and non-technical audiences

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, Master’s preferred

Experience:

• Experience with creatively applying OpenAI APIs
• Data cleaning experience
• Track record of driving projects end-to-end with loose specs, high ambiguity, and tight feedback loops.
• Demonstrated passion for animals—volunteering, pet ownership, or prior veterinary exposure.
• Ability to build quick front-end prototypes (Streamlit, Flask, or basic React).
• Collaborative to work with clinicians and incorporate feedback
• Comfort with being a solo engineer in an environment of highly capable domain experts.

Specific Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Explore AMC’s 110-year dataset: understand, clean, and transform text, image, and structured clinical data.
2. Discover use-cases and educate/collaborate with practitioners: talk to clinicians to understand their workflows and brainstorm how modern AI could help accelerate their work and evaluate how well AI tools are working for them.
3. Prompt engineer and fine-tune LLMs using OpenAI’s APIs—including fine-tuning, embeddings, and reinforcement fine-tuning as well as creating appropriate evals—to create models which are great for our use-cases.
4. Build lightweight clinician interfaces (Streamlit, basic React dashboards, etc.) so vets can test, use, and provide feedback on your tools. You are of course welcome to productionize any tool that takes off!
5. Run rapid experiments: articulate hypotheses, train or tune models, measure performance, and iterate.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous sign-on bonus
• 50% off Veterinary Care
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance with medical, dental, and vision benefits, very generous paid time off, paid continuing education time-off and stipend, and 403-b retirement plan with employer contribution.
• School loan debt forgiveness opportunity as a non-profit hospital
• Non-corporate practice with no pressure for percentage pay
• Collegial work with colleagues in a non-competitive structure with strong teaching and mentoring opportunities as well as opportunities for research

Pay Range$80,000—$105,000 USD

Excellence in veterinary medicine since 1910. AMC Offers:  

A Commitment to Lifelong Learning: Founded in 1910, the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center is the world’s largest veterinary teaching hospital, offering compassionate, collaborative, and cutting-edge veterinary care. Our commitment to innovation has led to the creation of one of the most advanced veterinary facilities in the world. 

State-of-the-Art Facilities: AMC is currently undergoing a major expansion and renovation. Once complete, this project will transform the hospital’s entire 83,000-square-foot space into a state-of-the-art facility unlike any other.  

Highlights include: A brand-new full floor surgical center, 1.5 Tesla Philips MRI (the exclusive high field MRI for small animals in NYC), 64-slice spiral CT scanner, Electroencephalography (EEG), Elekta Versa HD Linear Accelerator, In-house Laboratory, Ultrasound, Echocardiogram, and Mobile Cone Beam CT 

A multidisciplinary team of 140+ veterinarians across 20+ specialties: With over 20 specialties and services under one roof, our departments frequently work together to deliver the highest quality of patient care in the veterinary field. Our dynamic array of specialists means that we are the go-to place for complex cases. 

A Hospital in the heart of NYC: AMC is located in Manhattan, surrounded by leading research and teaching institutions such as Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical School, and NYU. Collaborative research opportunities abound, and our strong focus on education ensures a rewarding career for those passionate about mentoring and advancing veterinary medicine.