- Expert in Production AI Systems
7+ years in production ML, research engineering, or applied AI. Deep expertise with modern LLMs, transformers, and complex production AI systems. Have led or materially shaped consequential AI systems with real production impact. Able to reason across models, data, orchestration, evaluation, serving, and product behavior.
Significant experience designing evaluations for LLMs, agents, or other complex AI systems. Can turn ambiguous product-quality problems into robust metrics, datasets, and experiments. Experienced with grader bias, leakage, contamination, misleading aggregate metrics, regression detection, and offline-online mismatch. Knows how to establish whether a model or system improvement actually translates into better user outcomes.
- Agentic Systems Expertise
Have built or architected production systems involving multiple models, tools, retrieval, context and state management, routing, orchestration, tracing, and failure recovery. Understand how to evaluate and debug complex agent behavior across model, tool, and system boundaries. Comfortable making architectural decisions that span multiple products or teams.
- Post-Training and Model Improvement Expertise
Have materially improved model behavior through post-training or model adaptation techniques such as supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, reinforcement learning, distillation, synthetic data, or related approaches. Understand how data quality, objective design, evaluation, and post-training choices affect downstream model behavior. Know when post-training is the right intervention versus prompting, retrieval, context optimization, routing, or changes to the surrounding system. Have taken model improvements from experimentation through rigorous evaluation and production deployment.
- Production-Grade Software Engineer
Proficient in Python and modern ML frameworks; PyTorch preferred. Comfortable with modern MLOps, CI/CD, observability, and containerized deployments. Remains deeply hands-on: writes code, inspects traces, analyzes failures, and prototypes solutions.
- Data-Centric AI Developer
Skilled at building large, high-quality datasets and feedback loops. Experienced using production failures, user feedback, and active learning to improve model and system quality. Able to design data and evaluation infrastructure that creates leverage across multiple teams.
- Effective Technical Leader
Able to work closely with clinicians, product managers, researchers, and engineers. Strong communicator who can simplify complex AI concepts and build alignment around technical decisions. Comfortable operating in ambiguity, identifying the right problems to solve, and driving execution across multiple workstreams.
Passion for healthcare or other mission-driven industries. Thrives in a fast-paced, early-stage environment. Takes broad ownership of technical outcomes and raises the effectiveness of the people around them.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with realtime voice, conversational AI, or multimodal systems.
- Prior work in healthcare, clinical AI, or other regulated, high-stakes industries.
- Experience interviewing or hiring ML engineers.
- Open-source contributions to ML, agent, evaluation, or post-training tooling.
Why here
Our products power specialty-specific note generation, chart-aware diagnosis prediction, and real-time clinical decision support in real clinical settings. The work is deeply technical, but the goal is simple: help clinicians do great work with less friction. To keep improving, we can't wait around for bigger models. The fastest path is building intelligence that gets better with every encounter — learning from how clinicians actually use the products, what they change, and what outcomes follow.
You will own the hardest model quality problems across our clinical AI suite: coding models that navigate a proprietary million-term ontology with multi-objective precision, a scribe that learns from edit signals without introducing regressions, long-context chart understanding that stays faithful under real clinical complexity, and population-level reasoning that surfaces patterns across patients in a way that's auditable and actionable.
This is not applied ML on clean benchmarks — it's research-grade model work with production stakes, where your improvements directly shape what clinicians experience every day.
Life at Ambience
Working at Ambience means opting into a high-ownership, high-trust environment built for people who want to grow fast, operate decisively and focus on work that matters. This could be the right place for you if you want to
- Work on mission-critical AI technology that directly improves clinicians’ day-to-day lives and health system financial health across some of the most complex, high-stakes workflows in the world.
- Join a “dream team” culture where we hire exceptional people, expect exceptional outcomes and invest deeply in feedback and continuous growth. We operate as a championship team, and that means being ok with hard, uncomfortable, ambiguous problems that lead to real greatness.
- Operate with real ownership and accountability in an environment where there are no bystanders: If something is broken, we fix it! You will have meaningful autonomy and be expected to drive work to completion.
To help you do your best work, we pair these expectations with benefits intentionally designed to help you feel supported and safe at Ambience and beyond. Some of our key benefits include
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 3% of base salary
- A remote-friendly culture (with a San Francisco HQ) and full equipment provisioning to ensure you can work effectively from wherever you’re based.
- Parental leave to support your family needs
- Annual company-wide off-sites, team off-sites and regular team lunches and all-hands gatherings, with travel, lodging and meals covered
- Flexible time off with no annual cap, company-wide holidays and an annual holiday shutdown from December 24–January 1 designed to support real rest and long-term sustainability.
Ambience is committed to supporting every candidate’s ability to fully participate in our hiring process. If you need any accommodations during your application or interviews, please reach out to our Recruiting team at accommodations@ambiencehealthcare.com recruiting@ambiencehealth.com. We’ll handle your request confidentially and work with you to ensure an accessible and equitable experience for all candidates.
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