# Principal AI/ML Engineering Lead at VIDA

- Company: VIDA
- What the company does: Vida Health delivers enterprise obesity care and metabolic health solutions through personalized treatment, clinical oversight, and measurable outcomes for employers and health plans. Backed by GV.
- Company website: https://www.vida.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $250K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/vida/2fb7e77f-3d3d-4c1d-92ea-48ee26415732
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vida-principal-ai-ml-engineering-lead/

## About the role

Vida's technology organization is rebuilding its data platform, with a strong emphasis on protecting patient data, governing how data can be shared, and enabling self-serve analytics. AI/ML are central to the future success of the product and business. This role takes a hands-on approach to ensuring the platform is built so these strategic capabilities can be added safely and quickly.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's Degree at a minimum
- 7-10+ years of experience in building and scaling production-grade machine learning or AI systems
- Demonstrated experience as a generalist Software Engineer across backend, infrastructure, and data
- Substantial hands-on experience building and deploying AI/ML systems in production, including MLOps, model serving and inference infrastructure, feature and data pipelines, and integrating models into real applications
- Strong cloud experience, ideally on Google Cloud (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, GKE), with AWS or Azure equivalents also welcome
- DevOps and reliability skills: CI/CD, Terraform or a similar tool, containers and Kubernetes, and production observability

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