AI Engineer (Applied Scientist) III

3 or more years of full-time experience working in a structured product development environment on a product that had frequent releases (i.e., regular updates with enhancements, bug fixes, and new features)

Experience collaborating with partners from different job functions, and the ability to translate business requirements into technical builds

A strong understanding of both the scientific method and software engineering principles, with a proven ability to balance experimental rigor and rapid production deployment

Experience with modern programming languages (in this role, you’ll use both Python and Typescript), as well as experience with AI-enabled coding

A passion not only for AI, but also in the application of AI to solve real problems for real users.

If you are a match for this role, you’ll feel comfortable diving deep into the data to figure out the best way to solve a particular user problem, sharing your findings, incorporating updates based on feedback, and implementing your solution in code.

Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $170,000 - $215,000

This role is equity eligible

This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package

*Subject to location, experience, and education

What do we offer to the ideal candidate?

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

to join our team and help build and optimize product features powered by generative AI

Our goal is to use AI to drive bill clarity for patients and streamline workflows for our customers, which are large healthcare systems across the US.

This role is for the Support/Kora squad, where you will work on Kora, an AI Voice Agent purpose-built for patient billing, which is the central product for our Cedar Support offering.

In this role, you will develop a deep understanding of Cedar’s data and workflows and utilize your skillset in rigorous data analysis combined with production-level coding and rapid execution to design, build, and improve the AI workflows that solve problems for patients via the voice medium.

Build and enhance features for our AI Voice Agent, Kora – utilizing your skillset in production-level coding as well as prompt and context engineering.

Design robust experiment plans that deconstruct large goals into small testable hypotheses.