Ambience Healthcare

Staff ML Engineer, Frontier AI

San Francisco · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$250k-$350kDetected 128 days ago

PythonRESTMachine LearningDeep LearningPyTorchNLPRAGDesign SystemsHL7/FHIREHR/EMRICD-10Research

About the role

This isn't a platform or infrastructure role.
Ambience ships advanced clinical AI in real-world healthcare settings.
The models that power our products operate under constraints you won't find in typical ML roles - proprietary ontologies, messy EHR data, high compliance stakes, and clinician workflows where latency and accuracy both matter.

Responsibilities

Improve Chart Chat quality. Drive better grounding, smarter retrieval, and reasoning that holds up under the real diversity of clinical questions over complex longitudinal patient records.
Contribute to population-level clinical reasoning. Help build toward a layer of clinical intelligence that reasons not just over individual patients, but across patient populations at scale.
We operate as a championship team, and that means being ok with hard, uncomfortable, ambiguous problems that lead to real greatness.
Operate with real ownership and accountability in an environment where there are no bystanders: If something is broken, we fix it! You will have meaningful autonomy and be expected to drive work to completion.
You will have meaningful autonomy and be expected to drive work to completion.

Requirements

5+ years of ML engineering or applied research experience, with a strong track record of shipping model improvements in production.
This is not applied ML on clean benchmarks - it's research-grade model work with production stakes, where your improvements directly shape what clinicians experience every day.

Nice to have

Publications at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, etc.) are a strong plus.

Compensation

We offer a base compensation range of approximately $250,000-350,000 per year, exclusive of equity.
Our compensation philosophy prioritizes meaningful equity grants, enabling team members to share directly in the impact they help create.
Are you outside of the range? We encourage you to still apply: we take an individualized approach to ensure that compensation accounts for all of the life factors that matter for each candidate.
401(k) with a company match of up to 3% of base salary
Annual company-wide off-sites, team off-sites and regular team lunches and all-hands gatherings, with travel, lodging and meals covered
Flexible time off with no annual cap, company-wide holidays and an annual holiday shutdown from December 24-January 1 designed to support real rest and long-term sustainability.

Benefits

Work on mission-critical AI technology that directly improves clinicians' day-to-day lives and health system financial health across some of the most complex, high-stakes workflows in the world.
To help you do your best work, we pair these expectations with benefits intentionally designed to help you feel supported and safe at Ambience and beyond.
Some of our key benefits include
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
Parental leave to support your family needs

Company info

Here at Ambience, we never set out to be just another scribe. We're building the AI intelligence platform that restores humanity to healthcare and drives meaningful ROI for health systems across the country.
Our technology helps providers focus on delivering great care by removing the administrative burden that pulls them away from patients and away from their most impactful work. Ambience delivers real-time coding-aware documentation and clinical workflow support across ambulatory, emergency and inpatient settings at the top health systems in North America.
Our teams operate relentlessly with extreme ownership to build the best solutions for our health system partners. We value candor, positivity and deep thought - and we expect a lot from each other because we know the problems we're solving truly matter.
Ambience was ranked #1 for Improving the Clinician Experience in the KLAS Research Emerging Solutions Top 20 Report, recognized by Fast Company as one of the Next Big Things in Tech, named one of the best AI companies in healthcare by Inc., and selected as a LinkedIn Top Startup in 2024 and 2025. We're backed by Oak HC/FT, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI Startup Fund, and Kleiner Perkins - and we're just getting started.
Here at Ambience, we never set out to be just another scribe.
We're building the AI intelligence platform that restores humanity to healthcare and drives meaningful ROI for health systems across the country.
Our technology helps providers focus on delivering great care by removing the administrative burden that pulls them away from patients and away from their most impactful work.
Ambience delivers real-time coding-aware documentation and clinical workflow support across ambulatory, emergency and inpatient settings at the top health systems in North America.
Our teams operate relentlessly with extreme ownership to build the best solutions for our health system partners.
We value candor, positivity and deep thought - and we expect a lot from each other because we know the problems we're solving truly matter.
Ambience was ranked #1 for Improving the Clinician Experience in the KLAS Research Emerging Solutions Top 20 Report, recognized by Fast Company as one of the Next Big Things in Tech, named one of the best AI companies in healthcare by Inc., and selected as a LinkedIn Top Startup in 2024 and 2025.
We're backed by Oak HC/FT, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), OpenAI Startup Fund, and Kleiner Perkins - and we're just getting started.
As a Staff ML Engineer on the Frontier AI team at Ambience, you'll own the hardest model quality problems across our clinical AI products - foundational coding models, adaptive scribing, voice agents, long-context chart understanding, and clinical reasoning.
You'll set research direction, design learning loops, and drive end-to-end model quality improvements that compound over time.
You'll bring deep research instincts and engineering discipline to push the frontier on all of it.
Our engineering roles are hybrid - working onsite at our San Francisco office three days per week.
Own foundational model research. Identify failure modes, form hypotheses, and drive architecture decisions on hard clinical AI problems - medical coding, adaptive scribing, chart understanding, and more.
Build compounding learning loops. Design systems that turn real-world signals - clinician edits, coder corrections, audit outcomes - into fast, safe model improvements.
Push latency, accuracy, and cost simultaneously. Apply the right optimization levers - capability routing, distillation, speculative decoding, quantization - and know when each is safe.
Stay at the cutting edge. Distill insights from recent research - particularly in RL, deep learning, and clinical NLP - and drive experiments that keep Ambience at the frontier of clinical AI.
Deep RL and Deep Learning Expertise
Deep expertise in reinforcement learning and deep learning, developed in industry or a research setting.
Research to Production

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