Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer

Pivotal Health

Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer developing high-impact AI systems in healthcare reimbursement. Collaborating on product workflows and improving decision-making processes with AI.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeSanta Monica • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and improve applied AI and ML systems that influence important business workflows.
Build and refine production workflows around generation, decisioning, retrieval, evaluation, and orchestration.
Work on concrete systems such as position statement generation, offer engine improvements, open negotiation agents, and configurable rules or decisioning systems.
Design and run experiments that improve model quality, workflow quality, and business outcomes.
Partner with product, operations, and engineering teammates to define success metrics and translate messy real-world problems into buildable systems.
Improve prompt, model, and workflow behavior through tight feedback loops and practical iteration.
Contribute to the engineering quality of these systems, including instrumentation, testing, rollout safety, and operational visibility.
Use AI as a force multiplier in your own work and help the team move faster by bringing strong AI-native habits.
Balance speed and rigor in an environment where shipping matters and iteration is constant.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You are excited by applied AI and ML problems that sit close to product and business outcomes.
You are strong technically, but you are not looking for a research-only role detached from shipping.
You can work across experimentation, implementation, debugging, and productionization.
You are comfortable with ambiguity and can move from rough opportunity to concrete execution quickly.
You have a product-oriented mindset and care about whether a system is actually useful, not just whether it is technically interesting.
You are an AI power user yourself and actively use AI in your day-to-day work with good judgment.
You like operating in fast-moving environments where the feedback loop between work and impact is short.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation, including equity
Full health, dental, and vision coverage
Retirement savings plan through 401(k)
Flexible time off
Opportunities for company-wide connection and events

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Hard Skills & Tools

applied AImachine learningproduction workflowsdecisioning systemsexperimentationmodel quality improvementworkflow quality improvementinstrumentationtestingproductionization

Soft Skills

product-oriented mindsetcomfort with ambiguitystrong technical skillsability to work across teamsgood judgmentadaptabilitycollaborationiterationproblem-solvingspeed and rigor balance