AI Product Engineer Job Salt Lake City Utah USA,Software Development

Founding AI Product Engineer

Healthcare's helping hand. CHG shook things up in 1979 by inventing the locum tenens staffing model. We connect doctors with patients who need their care. As the largest physician staffing firm in America, our providers treat millions of patients each year. Our industry is growing and demand is high. This means you'll have plenty of opportunities to grow and develop in your career.

Keeping healthcare healthy can be as fun as it is rewarding.

As our Founding AI Product Engineer, you will identify where AI can measurably improve how CareerMD operates and how its users experience the product. The early work is most likely internal, starting with the teams where operational bottlenecks are clearest, and expands to physician- and employer-facing intelligence as internal wins prove out the operating model.

You will work directly with the VP of Engineering and the Product team. This is a high-ownership, high-leverage role where you will discover, build, eval, ship, learn, and iterate.

Responsibilities:

Discover and automate high-leverage internal workflows
Ship AI capabilities end-to-end with evals as a first-class practice
Partner on data, identity, and architecture
Build reusable patterns so each capability compounds
Extend to physician- and employer-facing intelligence as internal wins compound

Qualifications:

Strong software engineering fundamentals; you can design and ship systems end-to-end
Experience building and deploying real-world AI applications with LLMs, retrieval, embeddings, and agentic patterns
Experience building and running eval frameworks for AI products
Ability to identify high-leverage workflows through direct stakeholder interviews, not just backlog tickets
Product mindset: you think in terms of user and business outcomes, not just technical output

Education & Years of

Experience:

5+ years of software development
3+ years shipping user-facing software with direct product ownership
1+ year of shipping AI-powered applications to production
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related work experience

Preferred

Skills:

Shipping AI-native features into production with measurable outcomes
Building recommendation, ranking, or matching systems and the feedback loops that improve them
Designing systems that incorporate user behavior and feedback data
Experience in early-stage or high-ownership environments where the highest-value work is not always obvious

We believe in fair compensation for all of our people, which is why our pay structure takes into account the cost of labor across U.S. geographic markets. For this position, we offer a pay range of $129,000 - $193,500 annually, with pay varying depending on work location and job-related factors such as knowledge, position level and experience. During the hiring process, your recruiter can provide more information about the specific salary range for the job location.

In return we offer:

401(k) retirement plan with company match
Traditional healthcare benefits such as medical and dental coverage, and some unique benefits like onsite health centers, corporate wellness programs, and free behavioral health appointments
Flexible work schedules - including work-from-home options available
Recognition programs with rewards including trips, cash, and paid time off
Family-friendly benefits including paid parental leave, fertility coverage, adoption assistance, and marriage counseling
Tailored training resources including free Linked In learning courses
Volunteer time off and employee-driven matching grants
Tuition reimbursement programs

CHG Healthcare values a diverse and inclusive workforce. Interested in this role but not a perfect fit? Apply anyway.

We welcome applicants of any race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status and individuals with disabilities as an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We are an at-will employer.