Applied AI Researcher — Healthcare Opportunity Discovery

midstream; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

midstream seeks an experienced professional to develop applied AI systems that uncover opportunities in healthcare contracts, spending, and operations. You will collaborate with engineers, product, and domain experts to turn analyses into reliable workflows with measurable value.

Responsibilities include building AI agents, analyzing large datasets, and translating insights into automated processes, with emphasis on robust evaluation and cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2–8 years of experience in applied AI, data science, machine learning engineering, or related field.
• Proficiency in Python and statistics, experimental design, and data modeling.
• Experience building, debugging, and improving LLM-powered agents or workflows.
• Ability to investigate unfamiliar data, form evidence-based hypotheses, and evaluate model performance systematically.
• Strong ownership, clear communication, and ability to work across technical and nontechnical teams in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve AI agents that find opportunities across healthcare supply chain, pharmacy, and managed care.
• Analyze large, messy datasets to identify patterns, anomalies, and relationships relevant to pricing, contracts, underpayments, and negotiations.
• Translate expert-led analysis into automated workflows that improve the speed, accuracy, and scale of opportunity discovery.
• Develop information extraction and agent workflows for complex healthcare documents, then work with engineers to make successful approaches usable in a product.
• Set evaluation methods and performance measures, investigate failures, and improve models based on results.
• Collaborate with technical and domain teams to identify further automation opportunities and improve data models.

Skills

Python

Statistics

Experiment design

Data modeling

LLM workflows

Data analysis

Communication

Job description

midstream seeks an experienced professional to develop applied AI systems that uncover opportunities in healthcare contracts, spending, and operations. You will collaborate with engineers, product, and domain experts to turn analyses into reliable workflows with measurable value.

Responsibilities include building AI agents, analyzing large datasets, and translating insights into automated processes, with emphasis on robust evaluation and cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced environment.