# Principal AI Engineer - Personalization and Recommendation (Remote)

Hiring organization: [Rula](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/rula)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/189eac7c-2c81-4c59-bd01-88832a869886

Listed on Rula's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Principal
- Location: Remote - United States
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 282000 – 370650 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads the design and deployment of AI and machine learning systems that power patient-provider matching and personalization across a mental healthcare platform. It suits experienced ML engineers who want to apply their expertise to high-stakes healthcare problems, shipping production systems that directly improve access to care.

_Our summary, not Rula's wording._

## Skills named

A/B Testing, Elasticsearch, Gemini, Go, Java, LLMs (Large Language Models), Milvus, OpenAI, Pinecone, Python, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), TypeScript, Vector Databases, Weaviate

## Required

- 10+ years software engineering experience
- 7+ years designing and scaling distributed systems
- 5+ years building and deploying production ML applications
- 5+ years building and optimizing search, ranking, relevance, or recommendation engines at scale
- 5+ years hands-on Python programming
- 2+ years building AI-powered products with foundation models
- 2+ years backend language experience (TypeScript, Java, or Go)
- Experience with traditional search/retrieval infrastructure (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
- Experience with modern vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Milvus)
- 3+ years MLOps and data pipelines experience
- 3+ years experience with rigorous evaluation systems (offline metrics, online A/B testing)
- Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy for AI/ML infrastructure

## Nice to have

- Architecting secure and compliant AI solutions in regulated environments (HIPAA, GDPR)
- Familiarity with human-in-the-loop systems and clinical decision support frameworks
- Designing evaluation pipelines for human alignment, factual accuracy, or model interpretability
- Open-source contributions to AI frameworks or applied research in NLP, healthcare AI, or GenAI safety
- Experience contributing to early-stage team growth
- Leading or mentoring engineering teams in AI, ML platform, or applied research domains

Apply on Rula's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rula/f9a905bb-e477-4679-923f-ba8aada1b9de/application