Turn ambiguous clinical and operational questions into well-scoped ML tasks and build strong baselines.
Build predictive models for member care, including disengagement risk, coach outreach, and health trends.
Partner with product engineering to deliver model signals to members and care teams.
Build model-specific production logic for retraining triggers, drift and anomaly detection, and continuous evaluation.
Design offline and online evaluations, select metrics for imbalanced, delayed, and noisy healthcare outcomes, and analyze model failures.
Build causal models validated against clinical experiments and partner with Product Analytics on CUPED/CUPAC variance-reduction techniques.
Build ML- and GenAI-derived signals for personalized coaching and member experiences.
Lead ML initiatives from problem framing through production, coordinating decisions and dependencies across teams.
Share practices that strengthen model quality and delivery across the team.
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About Virta Health
Imagine reversing chronic metabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes, not just managing them. Virta Health pioneers this reality. Through a novel continuous remote care platform, you’ll join a team that delivers personalized nutrition and medical support. They partner with major health plans and employers, impacting millions of lives. Their clinical trials show 60% diabetes reversal in one year and 94% of insulin users reducing or eliminating medication. This isn't just healthcare; it's a transformation.
How We Work
Virta Health operates as a remote-first company with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco. They prioritize people, ownership, and positive impact. Transparency builds trust, and decisions are evidence-based. You will take risks and rapidly iterate, supported by a team that shares knowledge and mentors peers. Weekly all-hands meetings celebrate patient successes, reinforcing your daily purpose.
Engineering at Virta Health
At Virta, you will build and evolve scalable backend systems that power critical healthcare workflows. They use Go and Python for robust backend services, React for intuitive frontends, and operate on GCP and Kubernetes. This team integrates AI, including LLMs, into development workflows and products. You will solve complex problems, from optimizing enrollment funnels to scaling care delivery. Engineers here have a strong product sense and a drive for continuous improvement.
Why Join Us
Drive direct patient impact, reversing metabolic diseases in millions of people.
Work in a remote-first culture that values transparency, ownership, and evidence-based decisions.
Solve complex engineering challenges using modern Go, Python, and React stacks on GCP and Kubernetes.
Leverage AI and LLMs to accelerate development and enhance clinical care.
Receive strong compensation packages, including equity and robust benefits.
Benefits & Perks
Company-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) and Roth with employer matching
Annual work-from-home stipend and monthly internet stipend
Learning and development stipend
4-week paid sabbatical after five years
Generous parental leave (up to 16 weeks paid)
FSA (Healthcare & Dependent Care)
Company-paid basic life, AD&D, and short/long-term disability insurance