R1 RCM · 2 days ago
Senior AI Software Engineer - Palantir Foundry
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$176K/yr - $220K/yrR1 RCM is committed to transforming healthcare financial performance through its AI-driven approach. The Senior AI Software Engineer will design and implement AI systems in Palantir Foundry, enabling faster reimbursement and real-time claim adjudication while working with complex healthcare data.
Health CareHospitalInformation TechnologyInfrastructureMedical
Responsibilities
Construct Foundry Ontology & Object Views for revenue-cycle entities (encounters, claims, denials, payments), designing abstractions that downstream applications and agents can reliably consume
Build and harden data pipelines that transform source EHR/RCM data into the canonical Ontology; implement data health checks, lineage, versioning, and automated releases for production reliability
Own production operations: monitor refresh cadence across sources, triage build failures, and enforce release discipline (PR approvals, health SLOs) for 'always on' workflows
Design early phase AI systems (retrieval, ranking, categorization, generative features) over unstructured healthcare data; turn ambiguous business objectives into measurable outcomes and shipped models
Instrument scientific rigor: define evaluation datasets, select proper metrics, architect model/data flywheels, and connect model performance to operational KPIs
Operate at scale: productionize and maintain AI systems with robust observability, reliability, and cost control across cloud environments
Work backwards from outcomes with product, operations, and domain experts; document decisions and tradeoffs; mentor engineers; contribute to hiring and culture for a high bar team
Champion engineering best practices expected of senior software engineers (SDLC, CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, documentation) to ensure secure, maintainable systems
Qualification
Required
Proven ability to ship production applications on Foundry, ideally with experience across data ingest, Ontology, Workshop, and Code Workbooks
Data engineering fluency in SQL, Python, (Py)Spark; source control and release practices for data pipelines
Senior software engineering fundamentals: designing scalable systems, testing, CI/CD, and cross functional collaboration
Preferred
Experience with healthcare operations/RCM (FHIR/HL7, claims, denials) and/or regulated industries with compliance needs (HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001)
Hands on AI/ML: building and operating production search/ranking/generative systems; comfort taking projects 0→1 through to production and maintenance
Experience building pipelines and data engineering to source data into Foundry
Benefits
Annual bonus plan at a target of 30.00%
Competitive benefits package
Company
R1 RCM
R1 RCM serves as a revenue cycle management partner for hospitals and healthcare systems regardless of the payment models.
Founded in 2003
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$200MKey Investors
Khosla VenturesIntermountain Healthcare
2025-05-28Private Equity
2024-08-01Private Equity
2024-08-01Acquired
Leadership Team
Joseph Flanagan
CEO
Estelle Barnes
EVP, Enterprise Customer Engagement
Recent News
2026-01-07
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2025-12-13
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