Senior AI Engineer at Oscar Health In NYC

Senior AI Engineer
Oscar Health // health insurance

Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring a Senior AI Engineer to join our AI team.

Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform & a focus on serving our members. We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselvesone that behaves like a doctor in the family.

About the role

In this role, you will join Oscars AI team to transform healthcare with cutting-edge Generative AI solutions. You will collaborate with top engineers & data scientists to build impactful AI-driven applications across the healthcare ecosystem.

You will be responsible for leveraging Generative AI to optimize healthcare operations across many different use cases, build end-to-end prototypes, & measure success with your strong statistical & / or analytical background. You will use your creativity, ambition & determination to solve the health insurance industrys biggest problems, tackle ambiguous performance issues & meet requirements for production launches.

You will work on the central AI Pod at Oscar. This team is responsible for both enabling the rest of Oscars AI applications as well as directly delivering value on the most strategic AI projects in the business.

On the enablement side, you will engage with third-party AI partners to test new models & techniques as they come to the market, maintain core AI infrastructure for the rest of the company, & facilitate regular hacking sessions & knowledge sharing sessions.
On the project side, you will work with stakeholders to dive into the details of a domain & define requirements for AI software based on the use case. You will decide when & if you need a python script, a third party tool, a full stack web app, or some combination. You will execute on those requirements independently or with a small team. Youll carefully review results, generate ideas to achieve your target, & keep iterating until you get there. You dont shy away from problems with no right answer & youre comfortable in a world of ambiguity because you love creative problem solving & collaboration.

You will report to the Senior Product Manager, AI Innovation.

Work Location:

This is a hybrid role in our New York office (in Hudson Square). You will work part of the time in the office & part of the time remote / work-from-home. #LI-Hybrid

Pay Transparency:

The base pay for this role is: $158,400 - $207,900 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscars unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, & annual performance bonuses.

Responsibilities

Build & maintain core enterprise-wide AI infrastructure, integrating third-party AI models & tools.
Lead end-to-end delivery of AI solutions, from requirements gathering to production in collaboration with cross functional partners
Mentor colleagues to strengthen AI fluency, foster innovation, & influence roadmaps.
Act as a key contributor to AI strategy, identifying opportunities for impactful applications & enabling their delivery.
Compliance with all applicable laws & regulations
Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

5+ years of professional software engineering or data science experience, working with a variety of technologies, & have increasingly impactful accomplishments
Proficiency in Python & statistical fundamentals (e.g., bias-variance trade-offs, probability distributions)
Experience solving complex, ambiguous problems
Familiarity with widely used AI frameworks & tools (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex) & prototyping libraries (e.g., Streamlit, Replit,
Tesseract)
Experience or an interest in prototyping full-stack applications

Bonus Points

Experience with the healthcare industry. Familiarity with claims or clinical data.
Degree in math, statistics, data science, or engineering. Our ideal candidate is a data scientist with an engineering background or an engineer with a data science background!
Experience with NLP, neural networks, transformers, & modern AI frameworks.
Knowledge of containerization & deployment tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) or full-stack development (e.g., React, Golang).
Experimental mindset: comfort with testing hypotheses & iterating on failures.

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At Oscar, being an Equal Opportunity Employer means more than upholding discrimination-free hiring practices. It means that we cultivate an environment where people can be their most authentic selves & find both belonging & support. We're on a mission to change health care -- an experience made whole by our unique backgrounds & perspectives.

Pay Transparency: Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education, & experience. Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including: medical, dental, & vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan participation, life & disability insurance, & paid wellness time & reimbursements.

Reasonable Accommodation: Oscar applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to applicants disability or need for accommodation. Any Oscar applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact the Oscar Benefits Team (accommodations@hioscar.com) to make the need for an accommodation known.

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