# Staff/Principal AI/ML Engineer at Zus Health

- Company: Zus Health
- What the company does: Zus is the only shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data at the point of care via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations. Our mission is to catalyze healthcare's... Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://zushealth.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Boston, MA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-22
- Apply by: 2026-12-06
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zus-health/7ca09835-3453-4e5a-91e5-2da0db6a03df?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zus-health-staff-principal-ai-ml-engineer/

## About the role

Zus is hiring a Staff/Principal AI/ML Engineer to define how LLMs and AI agents power our products and the AI platform underneath them. You'll be one of the most seasoned AI/ML voices in the building, with real ownership of architecture, tooling and roadmap. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Zus is hiring a Staff/Principal AI/ML Engineer to define how LLMs and AI agents power our products and the AI platform underneath them. You'll be one of the most seasoned AI/ML voices in the building, with real ownership of architecture, tooling and roadmap
- 7+ years building and shipping AI/ML systems, including 2+ years putting LLM-powered products into production for real users
- Hands-on depth in modern LLM engineering: RAG, agents and tool use, structured outputs, prompt and context engineering, and the trade-offs between frontier APIs and open-weight models
- A track record of building ML infrastructure others depend on — serving, pipelines, model and prompt versioning, CI/CD, monitoring
- A rigorous approach to evaluation: you've designed eval sets and metrics, and you don't ship on vibes
- Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals, fluency in PyTorch and the Hugging Face ecosystem

Tags: Engineering

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