Job Description

Applied AI Engineer

• Title of Role: Applied AI Engineer
• Location: New York, New York, onsite
• Company Stage of Funding: Series B — Apps
• Office Type: Onsite
• Salary: $150K–$225K

We're representing a company that is transforming the way patients access life-changing medications. Their platform handles the end-to-end medication access process, supporting various drug, insurance, and pharmacy combinations to eliminate barriers between patients and the treatments they need. By sitting at the intersection of healthcare and technology, they build intelligent systems that simplify the complexities of the pharmaceutical and insurance landscape.

What You Will Do

• Design and implement AI and machine learning solutions that enhance core product features across the medication access lifecycle.
• Build and maintain robust pipelines for data ingestion, model training, evaluation, and production deployment.
• Apply large language models (LLMs) and modern AI techniques to automate complex, document-heavy healthcare workflows.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to translate clinical and operational needs into scalable AI systems.
• Evaluate model performance and iterate rapidly based on real-world feedback from production systems.
• Contribute to the architecture and technical direction of AI infrastructure across the platform.
• Ensure AI systems meet accuracy, reliability, and compliance requirements appropriate for a healthcare environment.

Ideal Candidate Background

• 1–15 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, or a related applied AI discipline.
• Proven ability to build and deploy AI or ML models in production environments, ideally with tangible user impact.
• Strong programming fundamentals with daily proficiency in Python and experience in full-stack development (e.g., React, TypeScript).
• Familiarity with modern AI/ML frameworks and tooling such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Hugging Face.
• Experience working with unstructured data, natural language, or document understanding tasks.

Preferred

• Experience applying AI in healthcare, insurance, or regulated industries.
• Familiarity with prior authorization processes, pharmacy benefit management, or health insurance workflows.
• Hands-on experience with LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, or agentic AI systems.

Compensation and Benefits

The base salary for this role ranges from $150K to $225K, offering a competitive compensation package that reflects the importance of this position in driving impactful solutions in healthcare.