Applied AI Engineer for Healthcare Revenue Cycle

Akasa; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Robust health plans with 100% free or低

Employer contribution to HSA

Mental health support (Spring Health)

Free One Medical membership

Generous parental leave policy

401k with company match

Commuter benefits

Internet/cell reimbursement

Equipment stipend

Job summary

AKASA is building AI-driven solutions for healthcare documentation and medical coding. We seek an Applied AI Engineer to design and implement services and APIs powering our SaaS products, collaborating with product, design, and ML teams across healthcare domains.

You will build features that correct clinical errors, improve documentation quality, and deliver measurable value for hundreds of thousands of patients in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a technical role with a strong foundation in AI and data analysis or backend systems.
• 1+ years shipping production AI systems to end users.
• Experience designing offline/online evaluations and landing agentic systems.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Thrives in a startup environment working on challenging problems.
• Healthcare technology experience (EDI, HL7, FHIR) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build features and products driven by LLMs across the Clinical Documentation and Medical Coding suite.
• Work with product, design, and ML teams to design and build services, APIs, and tools for our SaaS products.
• Deploy evaluation frameworks and experimentation loops for reliable, production-grade systems.
• Use data-driven and statistical approaches to balance medical coding guidelines, user feedback, and auditability.
• Partner with product, clinical, and revenue cycle experts to push the frontier of what AI can do in healthcare revenue cycle.

Skills

AI and data analysis

Backend systems

Production AI systems

Offline/online evaluations

Python

Healthcare tech exposure

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

Job description

AKASA is building AI-driven solutions for healthcare documentation and medical coding. We seek an Applied AI Engineer to design and implement services and APIs powering our SaaS products, collaborating with product, design, and ML teams across healthcare domains.

You will build features that correct clinical errors, improve documentation quality, and deliver measurable value for hundreds of thousands of patients in a fast-paced startup environment.