Navina is a fast-growing digital health SaaS company that’s on a mission to transform the way physicians interact with patient data. Thousands of clinicians across the United States already use Navina’s AI-powered solution that transforms complex and fragmented patient data into concise “patient portraits" and actionable clinical insights at the point of care. With Navina, physicians experience less burnout, reduce missed diagnoses, and can devote more time giving better care to their patients.
Navina has been named one of the Top 100 AI companies globally by CB Insights and made the list of the Top 50 Digital Health startups. We are already working with industry-leading value-based organizations, including Privia Health and Agilon.
Navina’s system aggregates medical data from all available data sources into a single clinical snapshot, highlighting critical information and delivering it to the clinician at the point of care. This is done using cutting-edge Deep Learning and NLP algorithms.
Navina’s AI organization has grown into multiple strong teams (Data Science, Medical Research, Analytics/BI) working closely with an MLE squad. While team leads own delivery and execution, the organization is missing a senior, hands-on technical leader whose role is to:
- Provide system-level AI architectural guidance
- Drive hands-on applied innovation
- Establish AI best practices and compliance readiness
- Serve as a senior technical sounding board across teams
This role fills that gap.
It is a director-level individual contributor role, designed to bring deep technical leadership, fast execution, and architectural clarity
- Proven experience designing and building complex AI systems that have been successfully delivered to production, with an end-to-end understanding of research, architecture, validation, and production handoff.
- Strong hands-on experience with modern AI approaches, including Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and LLM-based systems; experience with agentic AI systems or orchestration patterns is a strong advantage.
- Demonstrated ability to move quickly from idea to working prototype, with a strong passion for hands-on experimentation and applied innovation.
- Experience working in environments involving sensitive data and regulatory constraints, with an understanding of how these considerations shape AI system design.
- Excellent system-level technical judgment, including the ability to identify risks, tradeoffs, and unintended consequences in AI systems.
- Proven ability to act as a technical leader without formal authority, influencing and guiding senior peers through collaboration and expertise.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
- Ability to contribute to clear technical and AI-related compliance documentation.
- High proficiency in Python and modern AI/ML tooling.
Optional / Nice-to-Have
- Deep experience in NLP, NLU, or clinical text processing.
- Experience deploying LLMs or agent-based systems in production.
- Familiarity with cloud-native ML stacks (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).
Top Skills
What We Do
Navina was born with the vision to create a new world where the time-consuming chaos of patient data is replaced by a logical actionable platform that makes it possible for every physician to assess even the most complex cases in minutes.
Our technology creates a new era of simplicity by restructuring disorganized data into an intelligible patient portrait, intuitively organized for sophisticated and empathetic patient care. We use AI and machine learning to make sure that what's most important is immediately clear, diagnostically linked, and contextually surfaced, so physicians can have the entirety of each patient’s data.
The result: optimum patient wellness and enhanced financial performance for providers and payers.
Navina is a partner of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Innovation Lab.
