Virta Health is the leader in diabetes reversal and sustainable weight loss. Discover personalized, nutrition-first care designed for lasting results.
About the role
As a Senior Engineer, Machine Learning on Virta's Applied AI team, you build the models that shape how Virta shows up for each member: who needs a coach's attention this week, which nudge will land, what moves someone closer to reversing their disease. You take a fuzzy clinical or operational question, sharpen it into something a model can actually answer, and carry it the whole way to production. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years building, evaluating, and deploying production-grade Machine Learning systems for real-world use cases
- Strong foundation in traditional ML (predictive modeling, tree-based models like XGBoost, time-series analysis on structured longitudinal data)
- Rigorous evaluation and experimental design: statistical reasoning, offline/online evaluation, and a habit of identifying leakage, selection bias, and confounding in messy real-world data
- Ability to explain model behavior, tradeoffs, uncertainty, and limitations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience designing and analyzing experiments to determine what actually drives an outcome, not just what correlates with it
- Depth in one or more of: causal ML and experimentation, recommendation/ranking systems, predictive modeling, or NLP/LLM-based systems
More about this role
Virta Health is on a mission to transform type 2 diabetes and weight-loss care. Current treatment approaches aren't working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. Join us on our mission to reverse diabetes and obesity in one billion people.
As a Senior Engineer, Machine Learning on Virta's Applied AI team, you build the models that shape how Virta shows up for each member: who needs a coach's attention this week, which nudge will land, what moves someone closer to reversing their disease. You take a fuzzy clinical or operational question, sharpen it into something a model can actually answer, and carry it the whole way to production.
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