Iterativehealth
Applied AI Engineer
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, New York, New York, United States. Posted a month ago
The role
The Applied AI Engineer will build and ship ML models, LLM-based systems, and agents using clinical, video, and clinical trial operational data. This role works at the intersection of applied ML, engineering, and data science to create predictive capabilities.
What you will do
- Work with clinical, video, and clinical trial operational data
- Build and ship ML models, LLM-powered systems, and agents from prototype to production
- Stay close to the evolving AI and ML landscape
- Define the path from raw data to product and operationalization
- Partner with product and engineering to translate findings into shipped features
- Identify opportunities where data creates unique predictive advantages
- Evaluate where to build or partner and where existing approaches fall short
- Help shape the engineering culture of a small, growing team
- Performs related duties as requested
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in applied AI/ML, software/ML engineering, or data science
- Significant hands-on time building and shipping systems on real data
- Experience with healthcare data, clinical research, or life sciences
- Strong statistical foundations
- Fluent in Python and SQL
- Experience working across data science, product, and engineering
- Experience building and shipping production systems including LLM-powered features
- Experience with complex, messy, real-world data
- Knowledgeable about ML capabilities and frameworks
- Strong communication skills
Nice to have
- Experience working at growth-stage startups
- Experience with LLM application frameworks (e.g. RAG, agent orchestration, eval harnesses)
- Familiarity with clinical trial operations, disease classification, or patient identification problems
- Experience building or defining the roadmap for an AI function from early stages
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with up to 80% of premiums covered by Iterative Health
- Mental health and wellness support through Spring Health
- Health HSA or FSA options
- Commuter FSA contributions supported by Iterative Health
- Unlimited PTO
- 12 company holidays
- Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Years
- 401(k) program with a company match of up to 3% (up to $3,000 annually)
- Weekly in-office lunch benefit every Tuesday
- 100% company-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Annual wellness and professional development stipend
About the company
Iterative Health is a healthcare technology and services company powering the acceleration of clinical research to transform patient outcomes. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City with 250+ employees world-wide.