Enterprise AI Engineering Architect

At Claritev, we pride ourselves on being a dynamic team of innovative professionals. Our purpose is simple - we strive to bend the cost curve in healthcare for all. Our dedication to service excellence extends to all our stakeholders -- internal and external - driving us to consistently exceed expectations. We are intentionally bold, we foster innovation, we nurture accountability, we champion diversity, and empower each other to illuminate our collective potential.

 
Be part of our amazing transformational journey as we optimize the opportunity towards becoming a leading technology, data, and innovation voice in healthcare. Onward and Upward!!!

 
Job Summary:
At Claritev, we are revolutionizing healthcare payments through innovative solutions and data-driven insights. As the Enterprise AI Engineering Architect, you will lead the advancement of our AI engineering and infrastructure capabilities, focusing on platform reliability, scalability, and engineering excellence. You will help build and evolve the foundational AI platform--including model serving, agent frameworks, data connectivity, and secure deployment pipelines--that powers AI agents and applications across the organization.
Your role will involve driving research and development in AI engineering practices, shaping our multi-cloud/OCI architecture, and mentoring junior talent. Join us in transforming the healthcare landscape.
 
Job Responsibilities:
1. Utilize generative AI and engineering best practices to streamline platform services, tooling, and deployment workflows, enabling faster and more reliable development across teams.2. Build and optimize infrastructure that supports model hosting, vector search, agent frameworks, and secure data access.3. Drive research and development in AI platform engineering--including model serving, retrieval systems, observability, and secure AI gateway patterns--to establish reusable components and best practices.4. Partner with AI, data science, security, and product teams to understand their needs and identify opportunities to strengthen our AI platform, improve reliability, and enable new capabilities.5. Lead initiatives focused on developing, scaling, and hardening AI platform components such as MCP servers, vector databases, agent hosting environments, and multi-cloud model routing.6. Ensure platform-level enforcement of ethical and responsible AI practices, including secure routing, PHI-safe processing, model observability, and compliance guardrails.7. Mentor and develop junior AI engineers, fostering a culture of platform reliability, operational excellence, and ongoing innovation.8. Ensure adherence to HIPAA, SOC 2, and data privacy standards across all AI infrastructure components, including logging, routing, and data storage.
Qualifications
JOB REQUIREMENTS (Education, Experience, and Training):
* 7+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, platform engineering, or related software engineering roles* 3+ years contributing to or leading R&D or infrastructure initiatives* 2+ years mentoring or guiding junior engineers* Expertise in building and deploying large-scale AI systems, including model serving, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or MLOps* Proficiency in Python and modern AI/LLM technologies preferred (e.g., model hosting, vector databases, RAG frameworks, Kubernetes, OCI/Azure services)* Strong understanding of algorithms, systems design, and performance optimization* Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills* Creativity in designing scalable solutions* Excellent organizational and communication abilities* Ability to collaborate across engineering, AI, data science, product, and security teams
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative/technical field; Master's or PhD preferred.
 

The salary range for this position is $180K to $195K. Specific offers take into account a candidate's education, experience and skills, as well as the candidate's work location and internal equity. This position is also eligible for health insurance, 401k and bonus opportunity.
 
BENEFITS
We realize that our employees are instrumental to our success, and we reward them accordingly with very competitive compensation and benefits packages, an incentive bonus program, as well as recognition and awards programs. Our work environment is friendly and supportive, and we offer flexible schedules whenever possible, as well as a wide range of live and web-based professional development and educational programs to prepare you for advancement opportunities.
Your benefits will include:* Medical (PPO & HDHP), dental and vision coverage* Pre-tax Savings Account (FSA & HSA)* Life & Disability Insurance* Paid Parental Leave* 401(k) company match* Employee Stock Purchase Plan* Generous Paid Time Off -- accrued based on years of serviceo WA Candidates: the accrual rate is 4.61 hours every other week for the first two years of tenure before increasing with additional years of service* 10 paid company holidays* Tuition reimbursement* Employee Assistance Program* Sick time benefits -- for eligible employees, one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked, up to a maximum accrual of 40 hours per calendar year, unless the laws of the state in which the employee is located provide for more generous sick time benefits
 
EEO STATEMENTClaritev is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please click here.
 
APPLICATION DEADLINEWe will generally accept applications for at least 5 business days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
 
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