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Job overview:
Omada Health is on a mission to bend the curve of chronic disease. Our programs help people make behavior changes to improve their health and their lives.
We are a virtual\-first healthcare and technology company looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our agentic systems team, powering our AI Transformation efforts across Engineering, Product, and Design.
Our team sits within the Architecture \& Infrastructure department, inside of the larger Engineering org. Our mission is to define and deliver how internal Omadans use AI to plan, build, test, and operate software safely and effectively. This group provides the patterns, tools, and infrastructure that make AI\-augmented work secure, measurable, and accessible to every engineer, PM, and designer.
This team is new, and is poised to build useful things. We are at the forefront of AI Transformation work at Omada, and we are leading the way towards a near future, where we can orchestrate agentic software development with quality built in by design.
About you:
You are confident in your capabilities. You are good with people, and have led a life and career full of positive relationships. You are motivated by multiplying the impact of others through thoughtfully designed tools and workflows. You enjoy working at the intersection of infrastructure, application development, and human\-centered tooling, and you're comfortable owning ambiguous problems end\-to\-end.
You have strong software engineering fundamentals, are fluent with modern AI tooling and APIs, and are curious about how agentic systems are changing the way we plan, build, test, and operate software. You value communication and empathy as much as technical depth, and you like to collaborate directly with internal customers to understand real workflows and pain points.
Your impact:
- Build AI\-powered tools into engineers' day\-to\-day workflows (e.g., Claude, VS Code, GitLab, Datadog, internal documentation, Slack chatops).
- Implement and evolve inference and tool\-calling pathways using Claude models on Amazon Bedrock, LiteLLM, and MCP/tool gateways within Omada's secure networks.
- Partner with teams across Engineering to define AI\-augmented SDLC patterns across planning, coding, testing, and operations.
- Prototype and harden Slack\-based chatops experiences that safely orchestrate internal services through business\-level agentic harnesses.
- Instrument and monitor AI usage, performance, and cost to help the team and engineering leadership understand our impact and our organizational maturity.
- Collaborate with security, compliance, and infrastructure teams to ensure that AI workflows are designed to handle PHI and other sensitive data safely.
- Create reusable examples, templates, and internal libraries that make it easy for teams to adopt AI\-powered workflows without bespoke implementations.
- Contribute to training, documentation, and office hours that help engineers, PMs, and designers become confident AI users and partners.
You will love this job if you:
- Enjoy working on tools and systems that enable other teams to deliver better software, faster.
- Thrive in environments where you can operate cross\-functionally and influence architecture, development, and deployment workflows.
- Like to collaborate with Platform, DevOps, and Security teams to improve reliability and observability.
- Believe that quality is everyone's responsibility, and enjoy helping others succeed at improving quality
- Love to mentor and learn from your teammates – training and collaborating with developers to write great code and solve problems together.
Requirements for this role:
- 8\+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working on infrastructure, dev tools, or similar enabling internal systems.
- Strong experience building backend services and integrations (e.g., REST/GraphQL APIs, event\-driven systems, or internal service meshes).
- Hands\-on experience with at least one modern LLM platform or orchestration layer (e.g., AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, LiteLLM, LangChain, or similar).
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language used for backend and tooling (e.g., Ruby, Python, TypeScript/Node, Go, or similar).
- Experience integrating internal services or third\-party APIs into bots, CLIs, chatops workflows, or internal tools.
- Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure and secure\-by\-default patterns for handling secrets, credentials, and sensitive data.
- Ability to collaborate cross\-functionally, translate real\-world workflows into technical requirements, and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
Bonus points for:
- Experience building Slack apps, chatops tooling, or similar conversational interfaces for internal teams.
- Experience designing or operating MCP/tool gateways, function\-calling agents, or other agentic orchestration frameworks.
- Familiarity with observability tools and practices to track AI usage, reliability, and cost over time.
- Practical experience managing infrastructure on AWS with Terraform
- Background working in healthcare or other regulated industries where PHI/PII handling, auditability, and compliance are critical.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary with generous annual cash bonus
- Equity grants
- Remote first work from home culture
- Flexible Time Off to help you rest, recharge, and connect with loved ones
- Generous parental leave
- Health, dental, and vision insurance (and above market employer contributions)
- 401k retirement savings plan
- Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA)
- Mental Health Support Solutions
- ...and more!
It takes a village to change health care. As we build together toward our mission, we strive to embody the following values in our day\-to\-day work. We hope these hold meaning for you as well as you consider Omada!
- Cultivate Trust. We listen closely and we operate with kindness. We provide respectful and candid feedback to each other.
- Seek Context. We ask to understand and we build connections. We do our research up front to move faster down the road.
- Act Boldly. We innovate daily to solve problems, improve processes, and find new opportunities for our members and customers.
- Deliver Results. We reward impact above output. We set a high bar, we're not afraid to fail, and we take pride in our work.
- Succeed Together. We prioritize Omada's progress above team or individual. We have fun as we get stuff done, and we celebrate together.
- Remember Why We're Here. We push through the challenges of changing health care because we know the destination is worth it.
About Omada Health: Omada Health (Nasdaq: OMDA) is reverse engineering the way healthcare is delivered in America, putting the space between doctor visits–where health is won or lost–at the center of care. Today's healthcare system poorly serves chronic conditions that require ongoing support outside of the exam room, like obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, and musculoskeletal conditions. Omada's virtual\-first model combines human\-led care teams, connected devices, and AI\-enabled technology to deliver personalized care at scale, including support for GLP\-1 therapy. Omada has served more than two million members since launch across 2,000\+ employers, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, and health systems. Learn more at omadahealth.com.
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We carefully hire the best talent we can find, which means actively seeking diversity of beliefs, backgrounds, education, and ways of thinking. We strive to build an inclusive culture where differences are celebrated and leveraged to inform better design and business decisions. Omada is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws.
Below is a summary of salary ranges for this role in the following geographies:
California, New York State and Washington State Base Compensation Ranges: $179,400 \- $224,250\*, Colorado Base Compensation Ranges: $171,600 \- $214,500\*. Other states may vary.
This role is also eligible for participation in annual cash bonus and equity grants.
- The actual offer, including the compensation package, is determined based on multiple factors, such as the candidate's skills and experience, and other business considerations.
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Salary Context
This $171K-$224K range is above the median for AI Software Engineer roles in our dataset (median: $190K across 219 roles with salary data).
Role Details
About This Role
AI Software Engineers build the applications and systems that AI models run inside. They own the API layers, data pipelines, frontend integrations, and infrastructure that turn a model into a product users interact with. Every AI company needs engineers who can build the software around the AI.
The challenge is building reliable systems around inherently unreliable components. Models are probabilistic. They'll give different answers to the same question. They hallucinate. They're slow. They're expensive. Your job is to build an application layer that handles all of this gracefully while delivering a product that users trust and enjoy.
Across the 3,823 AI roles we're tracking, AI Software Engineer positions make up 7% of the market. At Omada Health, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
AI Software Engineer roles are among the most numerous in the AI job market. Every company deploying AI needs software engineers who understand AI integration patterns. The demand is broad, spanning startups to enterprises, across every industry adopting AI capabilities.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week includes: building API endpoints that serve model inference with caching and fallback logic, designing the data pipeline that feeds context to a RAG system, implementing streaming responses in the frontend, debugging a race condition in the async inference pipeline, and optimizing database queries for the vector search layer. It's full-stack engineering with AI at the center.
AI Software Engineer roles are among the most numerous in the AI job market. Every company deploying AI needs software engineers who understand AI integration patterns. The demand is broad, spanning startups to enterprises, across every industry adopting AI capabilities.
Skills Required
Full-stack engineering skills with AI integration experience. Python and TypeScript are the most common requirements. You'll need to understand API design, database architecture, and how to build reliable systems around probabilistic outputs. Experience with streaming, async processing, and caching patterns is increasingly important as real-time AI applications proliferate.
Knowledge of vector databases, embedding APIs, and LLM integration patterns (function calling, structured outputs, retry logic) differentiates AI software engineers from general software engineers. Understanding cost optimization (caching strategies, model routing, batched inference) is valuable since inference costs can dominate application economics.
Strong postings describe the product you'll be building, the AI integration patterns you'll work with, and the scale requirements. Look for companies that have existing AI features and need engineers to improve and expand them, not companies that are 'planning to add AI' someday.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI Software Engineer roles pay a median of $232,000 based on 797 positions with disclosed compensation. Senior-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $227,400. This role's midpoint ($197K) sits 15% below the category median. Disclosed range: $171K to $224K.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $200,100. Top-quartile compensation starts at $253,500. The 90th percentile reaches $307,500. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Engineering Manager ($275,000) and AI Safety ($274,200). By seniority level: Entry: $97,880; Mid: $165,000; Senior: $227,400; Director: $247,800; VP: $250,000.
Omada Health AI Hiring
Omada Health has 4 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI Software Engineer, AI/ML Engineer, Data Scientist. Positions span Remote, US, San Francisco, CA, US. Compensation range: $178K - $253K.
Remote Work Context
Remote AI roles pay a median of $170,000 across 1,926 positions. About 15% of all AI roles offer remote work.
Career Path
Common paths into AI Software Engineer roles include Software Engineer, Full-Stack Developer, Backend Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward Staff Engineer, AI Architect, Engineering Manager.
If you're a software engineer, you're already 80% there. Learn the AI integration patterns: RAG, streaming inference, function calling, structured outputs. Build a project that demonstrates you can wrap an AI model in a production-quality application with proper error handling, caching, and user experience. That's the portfolio piece that gets you hired.
What to Expect in Interviews
Technical screens look like standard software engineering interviews with an AI twist. Expect system design questions about building reliable applications around probabilistic models: handling streaming responses, implementing retry logic for API failures, and designing caching strategies for LLM outputs. Coding rounds test standard algorithms plus practical integration patterns like async processing and rate limiting.
When evaluating opportunities: Strong postings describe the product you'll be building, the AI integration patterns you'll work with, and the scale requirements. Look for companies that have existing AI features and need engineers to improve and expand them, not companies that are 'planning to add AI' someday.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 3,823 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 112 entry-level, 1,798 mid-level, 1,516 senior, and 397 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 15% of the market (590 positions). The remaining 3,217 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $200,100. Top-quartile compensation starts at $253,500. The 90th percentile reaches $307,500. Highest-paying categories: AI Engineering Manager ($275,000 median, 41 roles); AI Safety ($274,200 median, 55 roles); Research Engineer ($260,000 median, 434 roles).
AI Software Engineer roles are among the most numerous in the AI job market. Every company deploying AI needs software engineers who understand AI integration patterns. The demand is broad, spanning startups to enterprises, across every industry adopting AI capabilities.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 3,823 open positions across 15 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (2,629), Data Scientist (322), AI Software Engineer (279). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (112) are outnumbered by mid-level (1,798) and senior (1,516) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 397 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 15% of all AI roles (590 positions), with 3,217 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $200,100. Top-quartile roles start at $253,500, and the 90th percentile reaches $307,500. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Engineering Manager roles lead at $275,000 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $140,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (1,979 postings), Aws (1,190 postings), Azure (899 postings), Rag (839 postings), Gcp (726 postings), Pytorch (595 postings), Prompt Engineering (595 postings), Claude (540 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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