Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>Maven Clinic is the world's largest virtual clinic for women and families on a mission to make healthcare work for all of us. Through Maven Enterprise, the company partners with more than 2,300 employers and health plans to provide end-to-end women's and family health programs spanning fertility and family building, maternity and newborn care, parenting and pediatrics, and menopause and midlife — improving clinical outcomes, reducing healthcare costs, and expanding equitable access to high-quality care at scale. Through its consumer platform, Maven provides direct access to virtual care across 30+ specialties, as well as dedicated hormone and GLP-1 care programs purpose-built for women. Founded in 2014 by CEO Kate Ryder, Maven Clinic has raised more than $425 million from leading healthcare and technology investors including General Catalyst, Sequoia, Dragoneer Investment Group, Oak HC/FT, StepStone Group, Icon Ventures, and Lux Capital. Recognized for innovation and industry leadership, Maven has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies, CNBC Disruptor 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and FORTUNE Best Places to Work. Learn more at mavenclinic.com</p> <p><strong>An award-winning culture working towards an important mission –  Maven Clinic is a recipient of over 30 workplace and innovation awards, including: </strong></p> <ul> <li>TIME 100 Most Influential Companies (2023, 2026)</li> <li>Fortune Change the World (2024)</li> <li>CNBC Disruptor 50 List (2022, 2023, 2024)</li> <li>Fortune Best Workplaces for Millennials (2024)</li> <li>Fortune Best Workplaces in Health Care (2024)</li> <li>Fast Company Most Innovative Companies (2020, 2023)</li> <li>Fortune Best Workplaces NY (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)</li> </ul></div><p><strong>As a Staff ML/AI Engineer at Maven, you will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI-powered solutions using AI models (e.g., OpenAI, Gemini) and modern orchestration techniques such as RAG, multi-call prompting, and agent frameworks to power intelligent product experiences.</li> <li>Work with product, data, and engineering teams to turn rich healthcare data into actionable insights and intelligent workflows that improve the care journey for both members and providers.</li> <li>Develop robust ML pipelines and platform components that enable model experimentation, fine-tuning, training from scratch when needed, and deployment in production environments — with a strong focus on scalability, safety, and performance.</li> <li>Collaborate cross-functionally to prototype and productionize AI-driven features such as personalization, care routing, decision support, and summarization.</li> <li>Drive architecture discussions and technical decision-making across AI/ML systems, promoting best practices in coding, design, and evaluation of AI models.</li> <li>Mentor engineers and data scientists across the organization, fostering a strong culture of curiosity, experimentation, and AI fluency.</li> <li>Stay on the pulse of the evolving LLM and applied AI landscape, continuously exploring how to bring cutting-edge advancements into Maven’s platform.</li> </ul> <p><strong>We're looking for you to bring:</strong></p> <ul> <li>A strong track record in either:</li> <ul> <li>Building AI-powered applications using foundation models and orchestration techniques (e.g., RAG, agents, LangChain, vector search), or</li> <li>Deep experience as a data scientist working across the data science lifecycle — from understanding messy, complex datasets to training or fine-tuning models that deliver measurable business impact.</li> </ul> <li>Experience integrating and deploying foundation models via platforms like OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, or similar.</li> <li>A clear understanding of how to work with health-related datasets, including user behavior, care journeys, health profiles, and provider interactions.</li> <li>Fluency in Python and experience with backend or platform engineering in one or more additional languages (Go, Java, etc.).</li> <li>Familiarity with cloud-native systems (e.g., containerization, orchestration, distributed systems) and how to operationalize AI solutions within them.</li> <li>Experience with data preprocessing, feature engineering, model evaluation, and end-to-end ML deployment workflows.</li> <li>A collaborative mindset, strong communication skills, and a passion for using AI to improve healthcare outcomes.</li> <li>Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.</li> <li>Minimum of 8 years of experience in backend development, platform architecture and ML/AI platform or products, with a proven track record of building highly scalable, performant, and reliable systems with modem technologies.</li> </ul> <p>The base salary range for this role is $220,000 - $300,000 per year. You will also be entitled to receive equity and benefits. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, and skillset.</p> <p>Maven embraces a flexible hybrid work model. Our teams primarily operate from the New York Metropolitan area, NY, and remotely via San Francisco/Bay Area, CA, Seattle, WA. For those in our New York City office, we encourage in-person collaboration by requiring team members to work onsite three days a week  (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). For those based in Boston, DC,…