Remote AI Engineer - Applied Healthcare & LLMs

Savant Bio; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Savant is hiring an AI Engineer to improve the quality and efficiency of its clinical data platform. This generalist role bridges software engineering, data science, experimentation, and production operations, focusing on how pipeline changes affect system performance and how outputs are validated and repaired.

Based in NYC with remote-eligibility, the role invites candidates who can contribute across prompting, data retrieval, and workflows to deliver measurable improvements in healthcare data

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in applied machine learning, AI engineering, data science, or adjacent software engineering roles.
• Excellent Python and SQL skills.
• Hands-on experience building production applications with LLMs.
• Experience designing experiments and interpreting noisy, multidimensional results.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, or MLOps.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals and the ability to ship reliable production code.
• Intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, and taste.

Responsibilities

• Establish software programming paradigms for our platform’s interactions with LLMs in token-parsimonious and token-hungry scenarios.
• Build a test bench for understanding the $/performance frontier of open- and closed-weight language models as relates to our platform’s core workloads.
• Partner with clinical experts to encode domain knowledge and define meaningful quality standards.
• Build evaluation suites that measure accuracy, completeness, consistency, latency, and cost.
• Design controlled experiments that isolate the effects of changes throughout the platform.
• Improve model interactions through prompting, structured outputs, tool use, context management, and workflow composition.
• Build datasets and internal tools for evaluation, regression testing, and rapid iteration.

Skills

Python

SQL

Production code

Experiment design

AI engineering

Tools

LLMs

MLOps

RAG

Info retrieval

Job description

Savant is hiring an AI Engineer to improve the quality and efficiency of its clinical data platform. This generalist role bridges software engineering, data science, experimentation, and production operations, focusing on how pipeline changes affect system performance and how outputs are validated and repaired.

Based in NYC with remote-eligibility, the role invites candidates who can contribute across prompting, data retrieval, and workflows to deliver measurable improvements in healthcare data