Medica · 2 hours ago
Senior AI Engineer
Hopkins, MN
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$113K/yr - $170K/yr
8+ years expMedica is a nonprofit health plan serving over a million members across several states. They are seeking a hands-on Senior AI Engineer to build and scale AI-driven healthcare solutions, focusing on complex systems that enhance the healthcare experience for members, providers, and employees.
Health CareMedical
No H1B
Responsibilities
Design, implement and deploy AI pipelines, systems and platforms – from evaluation design and benchmarking through product integration-ensuring performance, reliability and end-to-end safety and transparency
Prototype, build and operate cutting edge product, and consumer facing AI systems, pushing state-of-the-art to solve our core healthcare and technical challenges
Contribute to technical decision-making and architectural discussions for AI and data platforms. Upload high engineering standards and share best practices in code review and design discussions
Stay up to date with the latest research and developments in AI. Evaluate new approaches or tools and drive their adoption when they can advance our capabilities. Help evangelize to the organization accordingly
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related field
8 years of work experience beyond degree
Eligibility to work in the US: Medica does not offer work visa sponsorship for this role. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application. Employment is contingent on verification of identity and eligibility to work in the United States
Preferred
Minimum of 3 years of experience building production grade software with Python, Go, or equivalent
Proven ability to create, manage and scale public cloud infrastructure in AWS/Azure/GCP
Experience deploying infrastructure via Terraform or another declarative tool
Familiarity with containerization & orchestration including Docker, K8s, Helm
Modern DevOps tooling including Github Actions, Prometheus + Grafana, Open Telemetry
Have strong opinions on agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, OpenAI ADK)—and can explain when and why to use them (or when/why not to)
Can explain agent workflows such as orchestrator-workers, evaluator-optimizer, and prompt chaining
Have built evaluations for AI systems—for accuracy, bias, security, function calling accuracy, etc
Can justify decisions between RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning
Have experience with modular agent architectures where specialized agents communicate
Have a stance on when to leverage generative AI—and when not to
Have worked with healthcare data, HIPAA compliance, or in regulated environments
Love (or hate) Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot
Have a favorite MCP server (or 3)
Benefits
Competitive medical
Dental
Vision
PTO
Holidays
Paid volunteer time off
401K contributions
Caregiver services
Many other benefits to support our employees
Company
Medica
Medica is a company that provides health coverage to meet customers needs for health plan.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
John Naylor
President and CEO
Jeni Alm
Vice President, Provider Partnerships and Solutions
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