# Sr. Staff Engineer - Applied AI, Patient (Remote) at Rula

- Company: Rula
- What the company does: Rula is a leading company in the behavioral healthcare space reimagining how people access high-quality, affordable care. Rula believes that when access to quality mental healthcare improves, patients, providers, and payers all benefit. Backed by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners.
- Company website: https://rula.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $242K to $288K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rula/6a13267b-3f5c-4284-a79f-e87b89f471bc
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rula-sr-staff-engineer-applied-ai-patient-remote/

## About the role

We're hiring a Sr. Staff Engineer – Applied AI, Patient to help Patient Engineering build and scale AI/ML-powered patient experiences across areas such as matching, ranking, recommendations, onboarding, and personalization.

## What they're looking for

- Demonstrated 0→1 experience building shared ML infrastructure or reusable capabilities adopted across teams, such as feature infrastructure, training/inference pipelines, model serving, evaluation, observability, or lifecycle tooling
- Deep experience with recommendation, ranking, relevance, personalization, search, or matching systems, including rigorous evaluation connecting offline model performance to online experiments and product/business outcomes
- Strong evaluation and experimentation rigor connecting offline model performance to online experiments and product/business outcomes
- Hands-on experience building and operating modern foundation model/GenAI systems in production, including evaluation, reliability, latency, cost, privacy/safety, and operational tradeoffs
- Experience helping an organization evolve from early-stage or ad hoc ML development toward mature ML engineering practices
- Experience operating ML systems in healthcare, financial services, or another regulated/high-trust environment

Tags: Engineering