R1 RCM · 2 weeks ago
Staff AI Engineer, R37
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $350K/yrR1 RCM is committed to transforming healthcare financial performance through its AI-driven approach. As a Staff AI Engineer, you will lead the development of AI systems that address complex data challenges in healthcare, ensuring alignment with business objectives and driving measurable outcomes.
Health CareHospitalInformation TechnologyInfrastructureMedical
Responsibilities
Lead AI Development: Spearhead the creation of initial-phase AI systems for retrieval, ranking, categorization, and generative AI features on unstructured healthcare data
Outcome-Driven Engineering: Deliver outcomes through software and models, ensuring projects are aligned with business objectives. Ask questions, disambiguate complexity, document your thinking, and deliver results
AI System Design: Work backwards from extremely complex business problems to design the correct AI abstractions and components in the simplest, most logical, and maintainable way possible. Maintain and operate AI systems at scale, ensuring reliability, performance, and operational excellence in AI production environments
Bring Rigor to Science Decisions: Be accountable for scientific decisions to deliver outcomes. Ensure proper evaluation datasets, correct metrics to connect outcomes to models, appropriate model architecture, and effective data flywheels for iterative improvement
Mentorship and Best Practices: Provide mentorship and promote best practices in data and AI while cultivating a collaborative and inclusive team culture
Team Growth: Contribute to team growth by improving hiring and recruiting outstanding AI talent
Qualification
Required
Proven experience building and operating production AI systems such as Search, Ranking, or generative AI products at a significant scale
Comfort in prototyping and pathfinding new opportunities that led to successful 0→1 projects
Proven experience implementing the full lifecycle of an early-phase AI development, from ideating on which models to use through productionizing and maintaining them
Experience in developing deep product and business knowledge to connect abstract modeling and analysis tasks with business value
Experience developing models using tools like PyTorch, TensorFlow, experimenting with models from Hugging Face and deploying to production in with tools like Databricks, AWS Bedrock, Azure ML
Preferred
A relevant advanced degree (master's or PhD) in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or a related field
Benefits
Eligible to participate in our annual bonus plan
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
H1B Sponsorship
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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
Columbia West
2025-12-13
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