Principal AI Engineer

How Youll Make An Impact

At Strive Health patients come first. Were on a mission to transform chronic conditions by identifying risk earlier coordinating thoughtful care and supporting people through every stage of their health journey.

Our work reduces emergency visits improves outcomes and helps patients live fuller lives. Youll work alongside passionate Strivers who care deeply about making an impact show up for one another as One Team and find ways to elevate the everyday.

If youre looking for meaningful work where your contributions truly matter youll feel right at home at Strive!

Benefits & Perks

• Hybrid-Remote Flexibility Work from home while fulfilling in-person needs at the office clinic or patient home visits.
• Comprehensive Benefits Medical dental and vision insurance employee assistance programs employer-paid and voluntary life and disability insurance plus health and flexible spending accounts.
• Financial & Retirement Support Competitive compensation with a performance-based bonus program 401k with employer match and financial wellness resources.
• Time Off & Leave Paid holidays vacation time sick time and paid birthgiving bonding sabbatical and living donor leaves.
• Wellness & Growth Family forming services through Maven Maternity at no cost and physical wellness perks mental health support and an annual professional development stipend.

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What Youll Do

The Principal AI Engineer is a senior individual contributor who helps Strive turn AI into real operating leverage across the business. This role will work as a forward-deployed AI engineer embedded with business and functional leaders to identify high-value problems rapidly prototype and deploy practical AI solutions and help teams adopt new ways of working enabled by enterprise AI platforms such as Claude Code Glean and related tools.

This role is not accountable for Strives core product roadmaps. Instead theywilloperatehorizontally across the company partnering with teams in clinical operations corporate functions care model support and technology to automate workflows build internal agents and copilots improve decision support and accelerate execution. They will combine strong hands-on AI engineering capability with sound judgment about what is worth building how to deploy it safely and how to help others use AI effectively.

Reporting to the VP Engineering this role will also help shape Strives broader AI enablement strategy by influencing platform and tooling recommendations establishing repeatable patterns for safe and effective AI deployment training technical and non-technical users and serving as an internal evangelist for AI transformation.

The Day to Day

• Partner directly with leaders across business units toidentify prioritize and sequence high-leverage AI opportunities that reduce manual work improve speed and increase quality.
• Act as a forward-deployed AI engineer embedding with teams to understand workflows in detail and translate them into practical automations copilots agents and decision-support tools.
• Design build and deploy internal AI-enabled solutions using enterprise platforms such as Claude Code Glean retrieval-based systems agentic workflows and orchestration frameworks.
• Create reusable patterns prompts skills templates runbooks and reference implementations so successful approaches can be adopted repeatedly; help business teams replace repetitive administrative effort with AI-assisted workflows while preserving the human judgment and relationships that matter most.
• Work closely with engineering data security compliance and clinical stakeholders to ensure AI solutions are safe governed maintainable andappropriate forregulated healthcare environments.
• Influence enterprise AI tool selection evaluation rollout and usage standards based on hands-on experience and measurable business impact.
• Train and enable both technical and non-technical users on how to use AI tools effectively responsibly and with the right expectations for quality risk and oversight.
• Communicate complex AI concepts clearly to executives clinicians operators and frontline teams translating technical tradeoffs into plain language and practical decisions.
• Measure and communicate the impact of AI deployments using operational productivity quality and user adoption metrics.
• Serve as an internal evangelist for AI transformation by leading workshops demos and office hours; continuouslyimprovehow Strive works with AI by sharing lessons learned and recommending where to invest next.
• Meet in person with internal and/or external stakeholders tofacilitateteam and business priorities/opportunities. Business travel may berequiredfor opportunities to connect with stakeholders and attend Strive-sponsored team events.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in computer science engineering data science ora relatedtechnical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software engineering machine learning engineering data engineeringsolutionsengineering or a closely related field.
• 2 years of hands-on experience building and deploying AI-powered systems including generative AI retrieval-augmented systems agentic workflows or AI-enabled automations.
• Demonstrated ability tooperateas a senior individual contributor in ambiguous environments independently driving work from problem framing through deployment and adoption.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with practical experience building production-quality tools services or workflows.
• Experience partnering directly with business stakeholders to translate operational pain points into technical solutions.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences and to influence without formal authority.
• Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down); Latency < 60ms.
• Ability to travel and be onsite to meet business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in healthcare value-based care or another regulated environment with meaningful privacy security and governance requirements.
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise AI platforms and tools such as Claude Code Glean coding assistants agent frameworks and workflow orchestration tools.
• Experience building internal AI copilots automation tools knowledge systems or agentic applications that support operational or clinical teams.
• Strong Python skills and experience with cloud-based data and application workflows ideally in AWS.
• Practical experience with retrieval-augmented generation prompt and context design evaluation methods and guardrails forproductionAI systems.
• Experienceoperatingin a forward-deployed solutions engineering field engineering or internal consulting model where speed judgment and stakeholder trust are critical.
• Track recordof influencing tool standards implementation patterns and adoption practices across multiple teams.
• Experience designing and delivering training workshops or enablement programs for users with a wide range of technical backgrounds.
• Experience evaluating AI vendors tools and architectures with a pragmatic lens on value risk usability and maintainability.
• Familiarity with healthcare data clinical workflows and collaboration with compliance security and legal stakeholders.

About You

• You have strong judgment about what to build what not to build and how to maximize practical value from AI insidea real business.
• You are highly hands-on and enjoy turning messy operating problems into working systems that people actually use.
• You are energized by working side-by-side with teams earning trust quickly and helping others adopt better ways of working.
• You are a clear communicator who can move comfortably between engineers operators clinicians and executives.
• You are excited by change and bring a bias toward action experimentation and continuous improvement.
• You are thoughtful about safety governance and risk especially when deploying AI into sensitive workflows and data environments.
• You are team-first low-ego and motivated by enterprise impact more than ownership boundaries.
• You are passionate about helping Strive become an AI-native company.

Annual Salary Range: $130000 - $196000

Final compensation will be determined based on location experience and qualifications.

Strive Health is an equal opportunity employer and drug free workplace. At this time Strive Health is unable to provide work visa sponsorship. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Please apply even if you feel you do not meet all qualifications. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application interviewing completing any pre-employment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process please direct your inquiries to

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