Applied AI Engineer

About the role

Join Oscar’s AI team to build and launch transformative AI-powered products that redefine the healthcare experience for millions. As an Applied AI Engineer, you’ll take end-to-end ownership of high-impact projects—conceiving, prototyping, and deploying generative AI solutions that solve real-world problems across the healthcare ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of AI-driven products and features, from zero-to-one prototypes to robust production systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and business teams to deeply understand user needs and deliver solutions that move key metrics.
• Rapidly experiment with new models, techniques, and tools (including LLMs, RAG, and agentic workflows), iterating based on data and user feedback.
• Build and scale full-stack applications and intelligent agents that automate complex healthcare workflows and deliver seamless user experiences.
• Stay on the cutting edge of the AI ecosystem, evaluating and integrating emerging technologies to keep Oscar at the forefront of healthcare innovation.
• Contribute to Oscar’s AI strategy and technical vision, helping shape the future of healthcare through technology.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, data science, or a related field, with a track record of impactful accomplishments.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience solving complex, ambiguous problems.
• Experience designing and analyzing experiments or evaluations.
• Experience or an interest in prototyping full-stack applications.
• Bonus points for experience with the healthcare industry, familiarity with claims or clinical data, degree in math, statistics, data science, or engineering, experience with NLP, neural networks, transformers, and modern AI frameworks, knowledge of containerization and deployment tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) or full-stack development (e.g., React, Golang), experimental mindset: comfort with testing hypotheses and iterating on failures.

Benefits

• Pay Transparency: The base pay for this role is: $163,944 - $236,911 per year.
• You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar’s unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, and annual performance bonuses.