Senior Engineer, Machine Learning (Fully Remote)

Virta Health; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Virta Health is seeking an AI/ML engineer to advance models that shape member care and outcomes. You will design and deploy production-grade ML systems, ensuring robust evaluation and monitoring, and contribute to scalable, autonomous retraining pipelines.

Ideal candidates have deep expertise in traditional ML, causal ML, and LLM-based systems, with at least 5 years of hands-on experience in production environments and a health-tech orientation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production ML systems.
• Strong foundation in traditional ML and rigorous evaluation.
• Experience with causal ML or LLM-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Build strong baselines before adding complexity.
• Design offline and online evaluations and run error analysis.
• Build self-maintaining models with retraining and drift detection.

Skills

Production ML

Traditional ML

Rigorous evaluation

Causal ML

LLM-based systems

Job description

• You build the models that shape how Virta shows up for each member.
• You carry fuzzy clinical questions into production-grade ML systems.

Responsibilities:

• Build strong baselines before adding complexity.
• Design offline and online evaluations and run error analysis.
• Build self-maintaining models with retraining and drift detection.

Must Haves:

• 5+ years building production ML systems.
• Strong foundation in traditional ML and rigorous evaluation.
• Experience with causal ML or LLM-based systems.

Nice to Haves:

• Background in clinical or health-tech ML.
• Judgment about when traditional ML outperforms LLMs.

Virta Health

Virta Health is on a mission to transform type 2 diabetes and weight-loss care through technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery. The company has raised over $350 million, partners with major health plans and employers, and maintains a remote-first, values-driven culture.