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Charlie Health1 month ago

Distinguished AI Engineer

$350,000–$600,000 year

Hybrid · New York City, New York, United States

Type
Full Time
Level
Senior Level
Education
Doctorate Or Professional Degree
Company size
Unknown
Industry
Healthcare Tech

Job Summary

Distinguished AI Engineer to lead the design, development, and deployment of agentic AI systems across Charlie Health’s platform. This role is hands-on technical leadership spanning architecture, model strategy, production deployment, and ongoing reliability. Responsibilities include leading clinical-operations agents for scheduling, intake, insurance verification, referral triage, and care coordination; building clinician copilots for real-time documentation, risk surfacing, and treatment-plan support integrated with the EHR and clinical data platform; defining the agentic substrate with eval frameworks, observability, guardrails, tool registries, prompt and policy versioning, and PHI-safe logging; owning model strategy across frontier models, fine-tunes, and traditional ML; partnering with Product, Clinical, and Data teams to identify high-leverage AI opportunities across patient and operational experiences; establishing practices around AI reliability, safety, evaluation, and explainability in a regulated clinical environment; mentoring engineers and data scientists to foster technical excellence and responsible AI innovation. The role collaborates with an AI Guild and a modern data foundation (Snowflake, dbt, pgvector) to support a national virtual IOP serving patients across 41 states, with a focus on real-world clinical impact and scalable AI systems.

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with several recent years focused on LLM- or ML-powered systems in production
  • Hands-on experience designing and operating agentic systems, including tool use, planning, multi-agent orchestration, eval design, and failure-mode analysis
  • Track record of owning a complex technical initiative end-to-end, including evaluation infrastructure, observability, on-call, and regulatory or compliance review
  • Strong communication skills and comfort operating across registers, from executive strategy conversations to engineering code review
  • Genuine interest in healthcare and in applying AI responsibly in a regulated, high-stakes domain
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Able to work a hybrid schedule of 4 days/week in our NYC office and located within 75 minutes' commuting distance of the office
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