Applied AI Engineer
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Job Description
Applied AI Engineer building reliable agentic AI for R1’s healthcare revenue-cycle workflows. Designing, evaluating, and deploying production systems with clinical and engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and iterate on agentic AI systems for complex healthcare workflows, including documentation, coding, denial management, appeals, and revenue cycle automation
- Develop long-horizon agent behavior across context construction, retrieval, tool use, memory, routing, verification, escalation, and human-in-the-loop review
- Define specifications, rubrics, gold standards, test cases, and clinically meaningful success criteria for clinical agents
- Build evaluation and feedback loops using expert review, production logs, model outputs, and benchmarks
- Measure performance, regressions, edge cases, safety, reliability, provenance quality, and business impact
- Prototype AI capabilities and harden them into reliable, explainable, auditable production systems
- Partner with research and ML engineering teams on model selection, fine-tuning, reward modeling, distillation, synthetic data, post-training, and internal AI infrastructure
- Work with instrumentation, experiment tracking, benchmarking, prompt/version management, and reproducible evaluation
- Collaborate with clinical, product, and engineering teams to translate real-world healthcare challenges into scalable AI systems
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, applied AI, research engineering, or a related field
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience building production applications using APIs, structured data, testing, logging, and observability tools
- Experience with LLM applications, AI agents, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), prompt engineering, tool calling, structured outputs, or machine learning systems
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, experimentation workflows, and performance monitoring for AI systems
- Ability to work in ambiguous, high-impact environments and translate complex real-world problems into scalable AI solutions
Benefits:
- Top-of-market compensation, including bonus that starts at 10%
- Flexible PTO
- Comprehensive health benefits
- 401(k) matching
- Inspiring, brilliant, mission-driven teammates
- Annual bonus plan at a target of 10.00%
- Opportunities to constantly learn, collaborate across groups and explore new paths for your career
- Competitive benefits package


















