Staff Applied AI Engineer
Quick facts
- Pay
- $230,000 - $350,000 a year
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- New York City, NY
- Skills
- Python, Docker, AWS
- Industry
- Information Technology — 686 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
Senior Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI)
AI-Powered Pharmaceutical Marketing
New York City (on-site)
$230k – $350k + equity
Join a Series A startup redefining how life sciences organizations commercialize therapeutics. You’ll own the technical direction of the AI systems: retrieval, generation, verification, evaluation, and keeping everything running in production. Every claim in pharma marketing content must trace to an approved source, and building persuasive, defensible content at speed is a genuine hard problem with no playbook. You’ll work directly with the VP of Engineering and co-founders, shaping architecture, product strategy, and technical hiring.
Responsibilities
- Own retrieval, generation, verification, and evaluation for AI-generated pharma marketing assets: emails, banners, slides, leave-behinds
- Build claim-level attribution so every sentence traces back to a specific, defensible source across proprietary corpora: prescribing information, clinical data, approved assets, style guides, claim libraries
- Develop offline evaluation metrics that predict downstream MLR review outcomes, where ground truth arrives slowly as inconsistent reviewer redlines
- Connect generated assets to real-world performance: engagement, HCP response, scripts written, and feed that data back into the system
- Run full ML ops: CI/CD for ML, versioning, automated testing, monitoring, and behavioral regression detection
- Ship high-craft output: visual and textual excellence that survives generation without getting quietly rewritten
Requirements
- Deep production experience shipping, operating, and maintaining ML/LLM systems
- Evaluation instinct: a history of inventing metrics to measure and improve systems
- Depth in LLMs: retrieval, agentic pipelines, targeted fine-tuning, and judgment on the right tool for each job
- Full-stack proficiency: Python, FastAPI, Docker, AWS, able to take ideas from research to deployed service independently
- Comfort making confident decisions amid ambiguity and adjusting fast
- Direct, open communication style
Why apply?
- Ground-floor role with real architectural ownership at a fast-growing startup working with 50+ pharma brands
- Hard, unsolved technical problems: provenance-preserving generation, slow-ground-truth evaluation, regulated AI
- Top-tier backing, ground-floor equity, and influence over product and hiring from day one
- Competitive NYC comp, relocation support, visa sponsorship (O-1, H-1B, TN), unlimited PTO, 401(k) with 4% match, in-office lunches
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name Storm3 in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Software Developers (SOC 15-1252).
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This kind of role may fit the USMCA profession “Computer Systems Analyst (or Engineer, for engineering-degree holders)” — it depends on the actual duties. No lottery, no cap; you need the matching degree or license.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
- STEM OPT extension (F-1 students)
Requires an E-Verify employer. We didn't find this company in the E-Verify list — ask HR.
Salary vs prevailing wage
Level IV (fully competent)Software Developers · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $109,845 | ~15% |
| Level II | $137,717 | ~31% |
| Level III | $165,589 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $193,461 | ~61% |
This job pays $230,000–$350,000 a year — that's Level IV (fully competent). In the wage-weighted H-1B lottery a Level IV registration gets 4 entries; estimated selection chance about 61% — better than average.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.