AI Operations Engineer

Job description

Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. Join us on our mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people. As our AI Operations Specialist you will be a technical catalyst driving Virta's evolution into an AI Native organization. You will serve as the hands-on subject matter expert partnering on the department-by-department rollout of our selected agentic AI platform with HR, ensuring our teams safely and effectively exploit generative AI to maximize their operational velocity. In this highly cross-functional role as part of the Engineering organization, you will partner closely with HR, business department SMEs, IT, Information Security, and Infrastructure Engineering to audit AI costs, evaluate AI connectivity requests, and operationalize long-term support workflows. If you are exceptionally curious, structurally analytical, and thrive in rapidly shifting environments, this role is your opportunity to define the future of work in digital health. RESPONSIBILITIES - Drive Adoption of selected agentic AI platform : Serve as the technical SME and primary champion for our rollout, partnering with HR department-by-department to support technical request and access, identify productivity bottlenecks, and implement high-impact AI use cases. - Establish AI Financial Observability: Define, monitor, and report on enterprise AI costs by department, creating structured dashboards to ensure optimized allocations and fiscal efficiency across our SaaS toolset. - Govern AI Vendor Risk Assessment: Partner with Information Security and legal teams to review, and assess new AI tools and vendors, validating how to implement connectivity - Bridge IT, Security & Engineering Infrastructure: Collaborate with internal infrastructure and security platform engineering teams to translate evolving technical AI guardrails into frictionless business enablement policies. - Build Repeatable IT Operational Workflows: Architect and document long-term support processes, training modules, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to transition daily AI ticket triaging, troubleshooting, and license management smoothly to the broader IT support team. 90 DAY PLAN Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following: - First 30 days: Deep dive into Virta's agentic AI platform and the deployment strategy. Build strong relationships with key partners in IT, GRC, and Foundations Engineering, and shadow current software evaluation queues. - Day 30-60: Partner on first pilots across the first key business departments, identifying specific workflow opportunities. Deliver the first automated dashboard tracking AI token utilization and cost metrics broken down by department. - Day 60-90: Formalize the AI vendor risk checklist in partnership with the Security team, deploy self-service AI guides, and document onboarding SOPs so that Tier 1 and Tier 2 IT support staff can autonomously assist users with common generative AI queries. MUST-HAVES - 2+ years of experience in agentic AI, IT operations, and business systems enablement, 4 years technical program management. - Technical skills: Hands-on technical experience deploying, configuring, or supporting generative AI productivity suites (such as Google Gemini, OpenAI/ChatGPT Enterprise, or Microsoft Copilot) across corporate environments. API & Model Orchestration: Hands-on experience integrating with frontier LLMs, multi-agent frameworks, and vector/retrieval systems. Software Engineering: Strong fundamentals in general software development with proficiency in languages like Python and C++. - Systems Integration: Ability to design with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and connect AI systems to existing internal legacy databases and web APIs. - Strong analytical and quantitative skills with experience building dashboard telemetry using APIs (e.g., utilizing Sheets, SQL, Looker, or similar BI tools) to gather info across platforms to track API utilization, software licensing, or operational costs. - Exceptional agility and communication skills, with a proven ability to demystify complex technical tools for non-technical users and coordinate across IT, Security, and Engineering. - Successfully designed and implemented repeatable AI-enabled workflows that address team bottlenecks and improve efficiency. - Can-do attitude with never-ending curiosity to learn CORE RESPONSIBILITIES - Tooling & Infrastructure: Build internal AI platforms, custom copilots, prompt libraries, and AI-agent toolkits designed for specific company workflows. - Cross-Functional Enablement: Partner with non-technical teams to identify repetitive work and prototype rapid, AI-powered solutions. - Governance & Standards: Establish the necessary security guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and system guardrails so internal teams can deploy trusted AI safely at scale. - Training & Mentorship: improve AI literacy in partnership with HR and promote AI adoption across the entire enterprise. VALUES-DRIVEN CULTURE Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if: - You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally - You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same - You prioritize positive impact over busy work - You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience - You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information - You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma - You take risks and rapidly iterate Is this role not quite what you're looking for? Join our Talent Community and follow us on Linkedin to stay connected! Join our Talent Community https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/virtahealth/form/talent-community-form | follow us on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/virta-health Virta has a location based compensation structure. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. For this role, the compensation range is $136,000 - $176,000. Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers https://www.virtahealth.com/careers. As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided. As a remote-first company, our team is spread across various locations with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco. Clinical roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, HI, RI Corporate roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, AR, DE, HI, ME, MS, NM, OK, SD, VT, WI. Virta uses Ashby as its applicant tracking system, which incorporates AI-powered tools (provided by OpenAI, AWS, and Google Gemini) in certain aspects of the recruiting process, including application review, candidate screening, and interview note taking; your data is not used to train AI models, and all final hiring decisions are made by Virta Health personnel. For more information, see Ashby's AI Terms at https://www.ashbyhq.com/resources/terms-ai-features #LI-remote