About the Role
Savant is transforming healthcare and life sciences by converting unstructured clinical records into structured data using LLMs. We are seeking an AI Engineer to enhance the quality and efficiency of our clinical data platform, working across software engineering, data science, experimentation, and production operations.
Responsibilities
- Establish software programming paradigms for platform interactions with LLMs.
- Build a test bench for evaluating the performance and cost of language models.
- Partner with clinical experts to encode domain knowledge and define quality standards.
- Build evaluation suites to measure accuracy, completeness, consistency, latency, and cost.
- Design controlled experiments to isolate the effects of platform changes.
- Improve model interactions through prompting, structured outputs, tool use, context management, and workflow composition.
- Build datasets and internal tools for evaluation, regression testing, and rapid iteration.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in applied machine learning, AI engineering, data science, or adjacent software engineering roles.
- Excellent Python and SQL skills.
- Hands-on experience building production applications with LLMs.
- Experience designing experiments and interpreting noisy, multidimensional results.
- Strong software-engineering fundamentals and the ability to ship reliable production code.
- Intellectual curiosity, sound judgment, and taste.
Skills
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, or MLOps.
- Knowledge of statistical inference, experimental design, or human-in-the-loop evaluation.
- Experience building evaluation platforms, experiment tooling, or model-observability systems.
- Familiarity with information retrieval, search, ranking, entity resolution, or knowledge systems.
- Experience with clinical data, medical terminology, or other healthcare data.
- Familiarity with HIPAA, de-identification, or quality controls for high-stakes data.
- Experience in an early-stage startup or small, fast-moving technical team.
Location
- NYC
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote-eligible
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $175,000 to $250,000 per year
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Discretionary bonuses
- Company-sponsored benefit programs
About the Company
- Savant is transforming how healthcare and life sciences organizations unlock the value trapped in unstructured medical data.
- Our platform combines cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) with domain-specific quality controls to convert free-text clinical records into structured, analysis-ready data — efficiently, accurately, and at scale.
- We work with leading institutions across healthcare, life sciences, and research, supporting faster studies, sharper insights, and better care.
- Backed by Roivant (NASDAQ: ROIV), Savant is built for organizations that see structured data not just as an output, but as a foundation for innovation.
Equal Opportunity
- Savant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
