Founding Engineer

Ember AI • Burlingame, CA

16h

About The Position

The Founding Engineer will lead the design and implementation of end-to-end features across web applications and backend services. The role includes building internal evaluation infrastructure for AI and LLM healthcare finance applications, architecting and maintaining scalable, secure, and reliable systems that integrate with healthcare platforms, and driving software development best practices through code reviews, testing, and documentation. The position calls for someone comfortable with complexity and ambiguity, collaborative, and willing to contribute wherever needed in a fast-moving environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Python.
• Comfort with LLM applications and containerized deployments.
• Ability to thrive in environments of complexity and ambiguity, prioritize collaboration, and consider ideas regardless of their source.
• Willingness to contribute wherever needed and work as a team player in a fast-moving environment.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on work with LLM prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and RAG applications.
• Experience with workflow automations.
• Prior work in healthcare, finance AI, or other regulated, high-stakes industries.
• Open-source contributions to ML libraries, evaluation suites, or benchmarking tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, or AWS and containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of relational and non-relational database systems.
• Familiarity with healthcare standards such as FHIR and HL7, and medical coding.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of end-to-end features across web applications and backend services.
• Build internal evaluation infrastructure for AI and LLM healthcare finance applications.
• Architect and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable systems that integrate with healthcare platforms.
• Drive software development best practices, including code reviews, testing, and documentation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level