Remote Senior ML Engineer for Health Care Outcomes

Virta Health; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 233,000; Full time

Job summary

Virta Health, a remote-first health-tech company focused on reversing diabetes and obesity, is seeking a Senior Engineer, Machine Learning on the Applied AI team. You will transform fuzzy clinical questions into production-ready ML models, validating baselines, and collaborating with product engineering to deploy signals for care teams and members.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years building production ML systems, strong evaluation discipline, and experience with causal ML, experimentation, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years building, evaluating, and deploying production-grade ML systems for real-world use cases.
• Strong foundation in traditional ML, including tree-based models and time-series on longitudinal data.
• Rigorous evaluation, offline/online, and bias/ leakage awareness in real-world data.
• Ability to explain model behavior and limitations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience designing and analyzing experiments to determine causative outcomes, not just correlations.
• Depth in causal ML, recommendation systems, predictive modeling, or NLP/LLM-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguous clinical questions into well-scoped ML tasks and build strong baselines.
• Deliver predictive models at scale to drive member care, integrating signals into product engineering.
• Maintain per-model logic for production health (retraining triggers, drift detection, evaluation).
• Design offline and online evaluations, select metrics for imbalanced healthcare outcomes, analyze failures.
• Build causal models validated against real clinical experiments and collaborate on variance-reduction techniques.
• Develop ML-and-GenAI signals for product squads to guide coaching and experiences.
• Lead complex ML initiatives across Applied AI, ML Ops, Product Engineering, and Product Analytics.

Skills

Production-grade ML systems

ML evaluation & experimentation

Explain model behavior

Causal ML & experimentation

NLP/LLM-based systems

Responsible AI / safety

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Virta Health, a remote-first health-tech company focused on reversing diabetes and obesity, is seeking a Senior Engineer, Machine Learning on the Applied AI team. You will transform fuzzy clinical questions into production-ready ML models, validating baselines, and collaborating with product engineering to deploy signals for care teams and members.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years building production ML systems, strong evaluation discipline, and experience with causal ML, experimentation, and