Head of Applied AI
San Francisco$285k - $300kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Lead the team building AI capabilities powering Latent’s products, shape production AI strategy across clinical and operational workflows, and drive measurable outcomes for health systems and patients.
Responsibilities
- Set the strategy and operating model for Applied AI at Latent
- Lead the team building production AI agents and intelligence systems for clinical and operational workflows
- Own Latent Agent, our evaluation framework, and the shared foundations for new AI use cases
- Establish evaluation practices that drive product, technical, and business decisions
- Make pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions across models, prompting, agent infrastructure, and post-training
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and business leaders to define priorities, metrics, and ownership
- Guide technical direction while empowering technical leads and senior engineers to own execution
- Build, hire, and develop a high-performing team with clear expectations and regular feedback
- Create predictable, visible execution without adding process for its own sake
- Own the reliability of live AI systems, including monitoring, failure handling, and service-level objectives
Qualifications
- Healthcare experience, or experience building systems that use sensitive data, is helpful but not required.
Skills
Required:Production-grade LLM agentsLive production systems reliabilityModel training/fine-tuning and measurement of impactPost-training, prompt engineering, and agent harness decisionsLeadership and team buildingStrategic and architectural guidance
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Latent
Faster Prior Authorizations, Better Outcomes
Streamline prior authorizations and accelerate patient access to advanced therapies with Latent Health’s platform for health systems and pharmacies.
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