Engineer in Residence: MedBuddy

AIFund • Mountain View, CA

5d • $30,000 - $30,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Older adults taking multiple medications are often confused about what they're taking, why, and what to watch for, and their caregivers and physicians are working from fragmented, incomplete information. This role is to build an AI chronic care companion that starts with medication management and grows into a coordination layer connecting patients, caregivers, and physicians through precise logs, symptom tracking, and clearer handoffs. The goal is to build a medication management workflow that helps older adults understand what they are taking, why they are taking it, and what conflicts to watch for. This includes a voice-friendly or chat-based interface suitable for lower-digital-literacy users, caregiver and clinician views that transform day-to-day logs into useful summaries and follow-up context, and a system for adherence, symptom, and condition tracking to improve continuity of care. The role involves owning the build across conversational experience, medication logic, patient and caregiver workflow, and deployment, with a focus on designing for trust, clarity, and low-friction use by older adults. The engineer will decide where GenAI adds value and where deterministic safety checks are crucial, and will work with patients, caregivers, and clinicians to ensure the product reduces confusion rather than creating new risks. Collaboration with AI Fund's build team on market fit and platform development is also a key aspect.

Requirements

• Strong product engineering ability and meaningful experience in health tech, consumer health apps, messaging products, or conversational systems.
• A strong sense for UX under trust and accessibility constraints, especially for elderly or low-digital-literacy users.
• Experience with GenAI systems, safe summarization, voice or chat interfaces, or messaging platform integrations such as LINE or WhatsApp.
• The ability to build both patient-facing simplicity and caregiver or clinician-facing structure.
• Knowledge of how to use AI coding assistants and modern AI tools to move quickly without losing safety judgment.
• Ability to work on-site in Mountain View, CA for the duration of the residency.
• Mandarin fluency is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in medication management, care coordination, elder care, or chronic disease support products.
• Experience with speech interfaces, multilingual UX, or family-sharing workflows.
• Founder or founding engineer experience in consumer health or workflow-heavy products.

Responsibilities

• Own the build across conversational experience, medication logic, patient and caregiver workflow, and deployment.
• Design for trust, clarity, and low-friction use by older adults rather than assuming power-user behavior.
• Decide where GenAI adds value in explanation, summarization, and coordination, and where deterministic safety checks should dominate.
• Work with patients, caregivers, and clinicians to learn where the product reduces confusion versus creating new risk.
• Work with AI Fund's build team on wedge selection, local market fit, and what could become a durable chronic care platform.

Benefits

• $10,000/month for 12 weeks ($30,000 total) compensation.
• Contract role during the residency.
• Potential for a founder-level role with meaningful equity upside if the build leads to a funded company.
• Commitment to providing an environment of mutual respect and equal employment opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed