Applied AI Researcher

Midstream develops AI-powered financial operations tools for health systems. The Applied AI Researcher builds and improves AI agents and models that identify financial opportunities in healthcare data, automates complex analyses, and works with Engineering, Product, and domain experts to deliver measurable customer value.

Responsibilities:

• Own the development and continuous improvement of agents that identify and validate financial opportunities across healthcare supply chain, pharmacy, and managed care. Experiment with new approaches, systematically improve performance, and measure success by the value your agents uncover
• Investigate large, messy healthcare datasets to uncover patterns, anomalies, and relationships that reveal financial opportunities. Develop models and analytical approaches to problems such as pricing discrepancies, contract optimization, underpayments, and negotiation opportunities
• Work closely with our Value Engineers to understand the complex analyses they perform today and translate those workflows into reliable, AI-powered capabilities. Help reduce manual effort while improving the speed, accuracy, and scale of opportunity identification and validation
• Develop novel approaches to information extraction and agentic workflows, including frameworks that make it faster to build and deploy new extractors across complex healthcare documents. Collaborate with Engineering to translate successful research into scalable product capabilities
• Define clear evaluation frameworks and performance metrics from the start. Continuously test, debug, and improve models and agents, ensuring that gains in technical performance translate into measurable financial value for our customers
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and domain experts to improve how we model healthcare data, identify new opportunities for automation, and influence the evolution of our AI-native platform. Bring curiosity, strong technical judgment, and a willingness to learn from the people closest to the problems we're solving