As a Staff Software Engineer in Applied AI, you will innovate, collaborate, integrate, and optimize AI solutions for healthcare automation, enhancing both platform functionality and performance.
Join Our Mission to Revolutionize Healthcare
Thoughtful is pioneering a new approach to automation for all healthcare providers! Our AI-powered Revenue Cycle Automation platform enables the healthcare industry to automate and improve its core business operations.
We're looking for an Exceptional AI Engineer for our Applied AI Engineering team.
As a key member of our platform engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in developing and optimizing AI-driven solutions that enhance our end-to-end platform, including our customer-facing web application, backend infrastructure, and developer suite. Your work will empower a community of developers worldwide to build tailored AI solutions for unique customer use cases, enriching the ecosystem of automation modules.
Learn more about our Warrior culture. Join us to transform how leading healthcare companies operate.
Your Role:
- Innovate: Stay at the forefront of AI advancements, continuously exploring new techniques, models, and tools. Your insights will help drive innovation and keep our platform at the cutting edge of technology.
- Collaborate: Work closely with core platform and automation engineers, as well as other stakeholders, to identify and address business needs through AI solutions. You will play a key role in bridging the gap between AI research and practical application.
- Integrate: Utilize APIs, pre-trained models, and other tools to implement AI-driven features across our platform. You will focus on integrating these capabilities into production systems, enhancing the functionality and performance of our solutions.
- Optimize: Fine-tune and optimize existing solutions for specific product requirements, ensuring that AI integrations are efficient, scalable, and reliable.
Your Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science/Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
- Over 3 years of experience in applied AI, with a focus on implementing and integrating AI solutions using APIs and pre-trained models.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, TypeScript, or similar, with experience in utilizing AI/ML frameworks and tools such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS) and experience in deploying and scaling AI applications.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, but with a practical focus on application rather than research.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex AI concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
What Sets You Apart:
- A practical approach to AI, with a focus on delivering tangible results and real-world applications.
- The ability to navigate and implement cutting-edge AI technologies and tools, including emerging areas like autonomous agents.
- An entrepreneurial mindset, eager to explore new possibilities and push the boundaries of what AI can achieve.
- A collaborative spirit, ready to work closely with cross-functional teams and contribute to a shared vision.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude towards learning and adapting to new challenges.
Why Thoughtful?
- Competitive compensation
- Equity participation: Employee Stock Options.
- Health benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Time off: Generous leave policies and paid company holidays.
Required Technical Exercise - submissions without this component will not be considered:
- Please spend no more than 20 minutes completing a quick coding exercise by following the instructions here.
California Salary Range
$190,000—$250,000 USD
Top Skills
AI
AWS
Langchain
Llamaindex
Machine Learning
Python
Typescript
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