Applied AI Scientist

Summary

Join Cedar, a leading healthcare technology company, as a Staff Applied AI Scientist to develop and implement AI-powered features that enhance patient experience and streamline workflows for healthcare providers. You will leverage your expertise in generative AI to build chatbots, virtual assistants, and AI-generated bill explanations, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of these initiatives. This role requires a deep understanding of AI/ML, GenAI techniques, and software engineering principles, along with strong leadership and communication skills. Cedar offers a competitive compensation package, including a salary range of $216,750 - $255,000, equity eligibility, unlimited PTO, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of professional experience in AI/ML, with a proven track record of delivering customer-facing GenAI products
• Deep expertise in GenAI techniques, such as effective prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, and fine-tuning
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership in complex, cross-functional AI projects and work collaboratively with engineering, data, product, and design teams
• Strong understanding of both software engineering and machine learning principles, with a proven ability to balance experimental rigor and rapid production deployment
• Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, and achieve clarity from ambiguity
• Production-level Python expertise required, with proficiency in version control

Responsibilities

• Collaborate cross-functionally to build multi-modal AI-powered features to enhance servicing solutions (e.g. chatbots, virtual assistants, automation of workflows) and improve the patient experience (e.g. AI-generated bill explanations, guidance on options to improve bill affordability)
• Architect and implement scalable data curation strategies, leveraging diverse data sources (audio, text, structured data) to build high-quality datasets for AI development and evaluation
• Establish robust evaluation frameworks and metrics for GenAI solutions, empowering the team to rigorously test, monitor, and measure the performance, iterate rapidly, and deliver high-performing AI products
• Champion best practices for GenAI development, providing technical guidance and mentorship to the AI team
• Develop and articulate strategic technical visions that drive transformative advancements in our AI product development
• Work with product counterparts to conduct ongoing research into customer workflows and emerging AI technologies, proactively identifying, proposing, and prototyping innovative AI applications to drive business value

Benefits

• Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $216,750 - $255,000
• This role is equity eligible
• This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
• A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company!
• Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
• Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
• Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
• Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally