AI Engineer

Arbital Health is a healthcare technology and actuarial leader that centralizes, measures, and adjudicates value-based care contracts at scale. We recently launched Merlin AI, the first VBC AI assistant that allows users to interact with complex VBC contracts and performance data in natural language.

We are looking for a hands-on AI Engineer who can help build Merlin's next-generation conversational AI experiences. This role requires a technologist who excels at the intersection of advanced AI models, large-scale systems, and a customer-focused approach.

Responsibilities:

• Develop Arbital's next-generation conversational AI
• Collaborate with cross-functional team of actuarial scientists, data scientists, data engineers, and product managers on Arbital's AI strategy
• Manage the deployment and monitoring of these AI solutions in production environments
• Ensure data accuracy, integrity, privacy, security, and compliance
• Engage in prompt engineering, model testing, and automated evaluation techniques for healthcare contract analysis
• Deploy LLMs in HIPAA-compliant environments

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in data-intensive, SaaS platform development projects
• 1+ year in machine learning or AI-related roles
• Familiarity with cutting-edge AI systems, context engineering and agentic systems ranging from tool-calling stacks to MCP-style frameworks
• Familiarity with AI orchestration frameworks like LangChain, CrewAI, ADK, etc.
• Familiarity with maintaining context engineering pipelines (RAG, memory, summarization, compression, grounding) for conversations
• Proficiency in Python and common AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, LlamaIndex)
• Experience with Cloud ML Services like AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, Google Vertex AI
• Experience with Airflow, Databricks, AWS or GCP

Tools: Vertex AI, GCP Model Garden, Vanna AI, MLflow, Databricks Vector Search; Python, R, SQL, Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS.

The company, co-founded by Travis May (formerly LiveRamp/Datavant), serves 40+ healthcare organizations. Compensation includes equity, comprehensive benefits, and flexible PTO.

Location: Hybrid SF — prioritizes 2 days/week in office; will consider remote candidates who travel to SF several days/month.