Principal AI Engineer at Strive Health
Denver, CO
$130,000–$196,000from the description
Jul 19, 2026
Denver, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role focused on deploying practical AI solutions across a healthcare company's internal operations — not its core product. The work involves embedding with business and clinical teams to identify workflow problems, then designing and building automations, internal agents, copilots, and decision-support tools using platforms like Claude Code and Glean. The role also covers training staff, shaping AI tooling standards, and measuring adoption impact.
Senior level · 8+ years · Denver, CO · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 120 people in the Denver, CO area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 90–160
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $140,636 (middle half $126,359–$175,118). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title is 'Principal AI Engineer' but the role's scope — a senior individual contributor embedded horizontally across business units — aligns with Senior rather than Principal on the standard career ladder. The posting does not describe org-wide technical authority or a top-of-ladder position; 8+ years total experience and 2+ years of AI-specific experience are consistent with a Senior IC.
Location is not explicitly stated in the posting. Strive Health is headquartered in Denver, CO; the role is described as hybrid-remote, so it is not fully remote. Denver CBSA is used as the best available metro.
A Bachelor's degree is listed under Minimum Qualifications but is immediately qualified by 'or equivalent practical experience,' so no hard degree gate is set.
Claude Code and Glean are named together as example enterprise AI platforms throughout the posting. They appear in both required context (day-to-day responsibilities) and explicitly under Preferred Qualifications — they are captured as preferred since they are framed as examples ('such as') rather than hard gates.
Python and AWS appear only under Preferred Qualifications ('ideally in AWS'), so both are marked preferred.
The alt SOC (15-2051 Data Scientists) reflects that the role spans ML/AI engineering and applied data science; however, the primary framing is software/AI engineering — building and deploying production systems — making 15-1252 the stronger fit.
The role requires business travel and in-person stakeholder meetings; it is hybrid, not fully remote.
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