Senior Applied AI Engineer, Position Statements

Pivotal Health is the leading technology platform that helps healthcare providers get paid fairly in an increasingly complex reimbursement landscape.

Today, many providers face persistent underpayment from health insurance companies, despite delivering high-quality care. While processes like IDR (Independent Dispute Resolution) were designed to promote fairness, they’re often administrative-heavy, time-consuming, and difficult to navigate without the right tools.

Pivotal Health combines software, data, and service into a seamlessly integrated, AI-driven platform that simplifies these complex reimbursement workflows. We help providers efficiently dispute underpaid claims, reduce administrative burden, and recover the reimbursement they’re entitled to; without adding more work to already stretched teams.

Our full-service IDR solution is just the starting point. We’re building solutions that enable providers to operate with clarity, control, and confidence across the reimbursement journey.

Pivotal Health is investing heavily in AI as a core strategic capability to transform healthcare operations. We are building intelligent systems that automate complex workflows, improve decision-making, and create measurable business impact across critical areas of the organization. From document understanding and workflow orchestration to next-generation decisioning systems, AI is becoming foundational to how we operate and scale.

As a Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer, you will design, build, and improve production AI systems that directly influence our most important business outcomes. Reporting to the Head of AI/ML Engineering, you will work at the intersection of software engineering, machine learning, and operational workflows to transform ambiguous business challenges into scalable, reliable solutions.

This role is focused on applied AI engineering—not research in isolation. You will own systems end-to-end, from problem definition and evaluation design to deployment and operational improvement. Your work will help establish how AI is adopted across the organization while ensuring the systems we build are production-ready, measurable, and impactful.

If you thrive in fast-moving environments, enjoy solving complex operational problems, and want to build AI systems that create tangible business value, this role offers the opportunity to shape a critical capability for the future of the company.

• Own and improve production AI systems. Design, deploy, and optimize AI/ML solutions that support critical business workflows and operational decision-making.

• Build AI-powered workflow platforms. Develop and refine production workflows leveraging generative AI models, agent frameworks, orchestration systems, and decisioning engines.

• Design evaluation and experimentation frameworks. Create robust evaluation methodologies, testing strategies, and measurement systems that improve model quality, workflow performance, and business outcomes.

• Translate business problems into scalable systems. Partner with product, operations, and engineering teams to define success metrics and convert ambiguous requirements into production solutions.

• Optimize model and workflow performance. Improve prompts, retrieval strategies, agent behavior, and system-level workflows through continuous experimentation and feedback loops.

• Drive engineering excellence. Contribute to architecture, testing, observability, deployment safety, and operational reliability across AI-powered systems.

• Accelerate AI adoption across the organization. Leverage AI tools and best practices to improve team productivity while helping establish scalable AI-native ways of working.

• 5–8+ years of experience building software systems in production environments, with a strong track record of owning and delivering complex technical solutions.

• Experience building and operating applied AI, LLM, agentic, or decisioning systems in production environments.

• Experience designing experiments, evaluation frameworks, optimization loops, or performance measurement systems.

• Strong software engineering background with Python and backend systems supporting production-scale AI applications.

• Proven ability to translate complex operational requirements and real-world data into reliable, shipped products.

• Experience working within healthcare or similarly complex operational domains.

• Product-oriented mindset with a bias toward ownership, execution, and delivering measurable outcomes.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving initiatives from concept through production deployment.

• Demonstrated ability to balance technical excellence with business impact.

• Experience in domains such as marketplaces, pricing optimization, ad technology, credit decisioning, lending, revenue optimization, or operational analytics.

• Experience with retrieval systems, prompt engineering, structured generation, model routing, agent architectures, or tool-using AI systems.

• Familiarity with modern evaluation frameworks and production monitoring approaches for LLM-based applications.

• Experience scaling AI systems that support high-volume operational workflows.

This position is not eligible for employer-sponsored work authorization. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.*

We’re a collaborative, low-ego team on a mission to make healthcare reimbursement fairer for providers. While we primarily hire around our core hubs–Los Angeles and New York–we remain open to exceptional talent outside those regions. Remote and hybrid flexibility varies by role and team, and is outlined in each job description.

If you’re excited by solving complex problems and making a real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits Include:

• Competitive compensation, including equity

• Full health, dental, and vision coverage

• Retirement savings plan through 401(k)

• Flexible time off

• Opportunities for company-wide connection and events

Ready to Make an Impact?
We’re building something meaningful; and we want you on the team.

Bring your ideas, curiosity, and drive, and let’s transform healthcare reimbursement together.

Work Authorization

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Pivotal Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Reasonable Accommodations

Pivotal Health provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws. If you need assistance during the application or interview process, please let us know.

Background Checks

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of applicable background checks, where permitted by law.

At-Will Employment

Employment with Pivotal Health is at-will and may be terminated by either party at any time, with or without cause or notice, in accordance with applicable law.