Senior AI Engineer

At Claritev, we pride ourselves on being a dynamic team of innovative professionals. Our purpose is simple - we strive to bend the cost curve in healthcare for all. Our dedication to service excellence extends to all our stakeholders – internal and external - driving us to consistently exceed expectations. We are intentionally bold, we foster innovation, we nurture accountability, we champion diversity, and empower each other to illuminate our collective potential.

 

Be part of our amazing transformational journey as we optimize the opportunity towards becoming a leading technology, data, and innovation voice in healthcare. Onward and Upward!!!

 

JOB SUMMARY:

Claritev is revolutionizing healthcare payments through innovative solutions and data-driven insights. As the Senior AI Engineer, you will lead the advancement of our AI capabilities, focusing on engineering excellence and leveraging generative AI to enhance our end-to-end operations from experimentation to deployment. Your role will involve driving research and development in analytical techniques, creating new AI-driven products, and mentoring junior talent. Join us in transforming the healthcare landscape!

  JOB ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Enhance AI Operations:
  • Utilize generative AI to streamline processes and tools, enabling faster and more effective development and deployment.
  • Build scalable GenAI infrastructure with Terraform, Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes (OKE, AKS).
  • Architect hybrid AI systems across OCI, Azure, and on-prem GPU clusters. 
  • Automate model pipelines (training → fine-tuning → inference) using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and MLflow
    - Serve multimodal LLMs with vLLM, Triton, and Streamlit dashboards.
  • Deploy secure RAG-based microservices backed by Vector DBs, Databricks, and private LLM gateways
• Lead R&D Efforts: Drive research and development using generative AI to create reusable code components and establish best practices.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with stakeholders to identify opportunities for new AI-driven products through data insights.
• Program-Level Initiatives: Lead initiatives focused on the initial development of AI-powered products.
• Ethical AI/ML Practices: Ensure AI models are transparent, relevant, and ethically used.
• Team Management: Mentor and develop junior data scientists, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Compliance: Ensure adherence to HIPAA regulations and data privacy standards: HIPAA, SOC2, BAA enforcement, PHI-safe model routing.

Qualifications JOB REQUIREMENTS (Education, Experience, and Training):

• Must have 7+ years in Data Science, 3+ years in R&D, 2+ years mentoring/managing junior engineers. 
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD, LLMOps, and cloud-native architecture. Exposure to taking AI agents from concept to compliance-ready production is preferred.
• Strong ML Infra experience with hands-on Terraform/K8s/IaC.
• Deep experience with LLMOps, model versioning, and hybrid GPU deployment.
• Must have fluency in Python, Bash, and container-native toolchains.
• Familiarity with open-weight LLMs (Mistral, Grok, LLaVA, etc.)
• Passion for building AI that’s not just powerful, but secure and compliant.
• Experience in dealing with Peta Bytes of data.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, organizational, and communication skills.
• Preferred Experience: Healthcare and process optimization.
• Bachelor's in Quantitative Science; Master's or PhD preferred.

COMPENSATION

 

The salary range for this position is $175K to $185K.  Specific offers take into account a candidate’s education, experience and skills, as well as the candidate’s work location and internal equity.  This position is also eligible for health insurance, 401k and bonus opportunity.

 

BENEFITS

We realize that our employees are instrumental to our success, and we reward them accordingly with very competitive compensation and benefits packages, an incentive bonus program, as well as recognition and awards programs.  Our work environment is friendly and supportive, and we offer flexible schedules whenever possible, as well as a wide range of live and web-based professional development and educational programs to prepare you for advancement opportunities.

 

Your benefits will include:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage with low deductible & copay
• Life insurance
• Short