Founding Applied AI Engineer
About The Position
A seed-stage healthcare AI company is hiring two Founding Applied AI Engineers to build and operate conversational agents for clinical trials. These agents contact patients by text, voice, and email, screen them for eligibility, route them to relevant trials, and book appointments. The role takes ownership of existing patient outreach and screening agents and includes building a new patient-facing agent. Working directly with engineering and operations, the engineer will use production traces to identify where conversations break down and turn failures into evaluations that catch regressions before they reach patients.
Requirements
- Personally built a production conversational agent that interacted directly with thousands of regular external users, such as consumers or patients.
- Able to describe a real failure in that agent, how it was found and fixed, and how recurrence was prevented.
- Deep hands-on experience building and operating agents; language and framework are flexible.
- Able to work onsite in San Francisco Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–9 p.m., and Saturday, noon–7 p.m.
- 0–4 years of experience.
Nice To Haves
- Healthcare experience.
Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, and operate conversational agents across SMS, voice, and email.
- Improve eligibility screening, trial routing, and appointment booking across thousands of real patient conversations.
- Own tracing and evaluations, diagnose live failures, and verify fixes before rollout.
- Test new approaches to agent design and bring the ones that improve reliability into production.
Benefits
- Base compensation of $150,000–$220,000 plus 0.1%–1% equity.
- Office lunch and dinner.
- 401(k).
- H-1B transfers allowed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
