• Define and execute the AI engineering strategy and technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with Lantern’s product, clinical, and business priorities. • Build, lead, and scale a high-performing AI engineering team, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and creating a culture of technical excellence and innovation. • Drive rapid AI proof-of-concept development, moving from problem identification to working prototypes on aggressive timelines, and shepherding successful POCs into production-grade systems. • Own the end-to-end lifecycle of ML/LLM systems—from research and experimentation through production deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. • Establish and maintain best-in-class MLOps practices: experiment tracking, reproducibility, CI/CD for models, automated testing, drift detection, observability, and scalable infrastructure on Azure. • Partner with product, clinical operations, marketing, data, and engineering leadership to identify high-impact AI opportunities and translate them into well-scoped, executable initiatives. • Lead architecture decisions for ML/LLM systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and compliance with healthcare regulations. • Establish clear KPIs and success metrics for the AI engineering function, including model performance, delivery velocity, team health, and business impact. • Champion responsible AI practices across the organization, including fairness, transparency, explainability, and regulatory compliance in healthcare contexts. • Represent the AI engineering function to executive leadership, providing regular updates on progress, risks, and strategic recommendations. • Build external visibility for Lantern’s AI capabilities through thought leadership, community engagement, and talent brand building.