Biology/Public Health Surveillance AI Specialist

Location: Remote - Continental US; conditions listed as Georgia, United States

Salary: USD $131,603–$164,504 per year

Company

Chenega Services & Federal Solutions, a hirify.global company, provides professional services with an emphasis on public-sector and federal solutions.

What you will do

• Apply biology, epidemiology, and public health surveillance expertise to design and evaluate AI-enabled surveillance solutions.
• Translate public health needs into AI use cases, evaluation criteria, test scenarios, datasets, and analytical workflows.
• Evaluate AI and Generative AI for event detection, outbreak summarization, information extraction, classification, trend identification, and evidence synthesis.
• Assess AI outputs for scientific accuracy, completeness, relevance, consistency, hallucinations, bias, explainability, and supporting evidence.
• Validate AI-assisted workflows using laboratory, case, syndromic, genomic, environmental, and other structured or unstructured surveillance data.
• Collaborate with AI, data engineering, epidemiology, and public health stakeholders; document risks and recommendations and improve prompts, RAG, agents, knowledge sources, and evaluation methods.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in biology, epidemiology, public health, biosurveillance, infectious disease surveillance, or a closely related field.
• Experience working with public health surveillance data and interpreting disease trends, signals, outbreaks, or population health indicators.
• Experience reviewing scientific or public health information and assessing analytical accuracy, validity, and appropriate interpretation.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams including epidemiologists, scientists, analysts, engineers, or AI/ML practitioners.
• Strong understanding of AI, machine learning, Generative AI, or large language models and their applications and limitations in scientific or public health settings.
• Strong understanding of epidemiologic and surveillance concepts, including data quality, case definitions, sensitivity, specificity, timeliness, representativeness, and signal interpretation.
• Strong communication and documentation skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in biology, epidemiology, public health, microbiology, biostatistics, or a related scientific discipline.
• Position is contingent on contract award; details may change based on the final award.

Nice to have

• Experience applying or evaluating Generative AI, large language models, RAG, AI agents, or natural-language analytics in public health, healthcare, or life sciences.
• Experience with public health surveillance platforms, laboratory or genomic data, syndromic surveillance, or emerging infectious disease monitoring.
• Experience with federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial public health programs.
• Knowledge of Python, R, SQL, statistical analysis, or public health data visualization tools.
• Knowledge of AI evaluation frameworks, benchmark development, prompt evaluation, red teaming, or human-in-the-loop validation.
• Master’s degree or higher in epidemiology, public health, biology, bioinformatics, biostatistics, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with teleworking permitted for the continental United States.
• Benefits may include PTO, 11 paid holidays, medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, disability, life insurance, and employee assistance.
• Spending accounts may include FSA, HSA, HRA, dependent care, and commuter benefits.
• Retirement options include 401(k)/401(a); voluntary benefits include insurance and legal and identity-theft protection.
• Public Trust designation applies to the role.