Software Engineer, Agent - Healthcare

Sierra • New York, NY

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Healthcare is one of Sierra's fastest-growing industries—our agents already reach over 50% of U.S. families. We partner with leading health plans, providers, and healthcare platforms to deliver AI agents that handle some of the most sensitive and high stakes conversations in any industry. From helping members understand their benefits to resolving billing questions with empathy, our healthcare agents are transforming how patients and policyholders interact with the healthcare system.
Our healthcare customers include major health insurance networks, nonprofit providers, multi-site primary and urgent care practices, healthcare diagnostics companies, and healthcare financial platforms. We're proud that our work with partners like Sutter Health, Stellarus, and R1 RCM is demonstrating what's possible when conversational AI truly understands context and nuance.
Join us to transform the patient experience across the healthcare system—and help build technology that makes care more accessible, more human and more affordable for everyone.

Requirements

• Experience building and scaling end-to-end production systems.
• Strong technical problem-solving skills, especially in fast-changing, ambiguous environments.
• A builder and tinkerer's mindset with high agency - you find creative ways to overcome obstacles and ship.
• Comfort working directly with customers to understand their needs and solve real-world problems.
• Excellent communication skills—clear, direct, and persuasive across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Genuine interest in healthcare and improving patient/member experiences.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in healthcare technology, health IT or working with healthcare organizations
• Familiarity with healthcare systems: Major EHR ecosystems (e.g. Epic, Cerner/Oracle Health, athenahealth); X12 EDI transactions and clearinghouse workflows; scheduling/patient access, practice management, and contact center platforms.
• Understanding of healthcare compliance requirements (HIPAA, PHI handling and healthcare data privacy).
• Experience building or deploying AI/LLM systems in production.
• Have been a founder or founding engineer—you know what it means to balance craft, ownership, and speed.
• Familiarity with tools that power today's AI agents: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
• Prior experience with React, TypeScript, and/or Go.
• Previous roles where you interfaced with customers or led technical projects with external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver production-grade AI agents for healthcare: You'll build and ship highly performant, reliable, and empathetic AI agents that handle sensitive patient and member interactions. These agents help people understand their coverage, find providers, schedule appointments, navigate billing, and more—all while maintaining strict HIPAA compliance and the trust that healthcare demands.
• Drive the Agent Development Life Cycle (ADLC): You'll have complete ownership and autonomy from initial pilot through deployment and continuous iteration. You'll be responsible for building, tuning, and evolving AI agents in production environments serving healthcare payers, providers, and platforms.
• Partner with healthcare leaders: You'll work directly with executives and technical teams at health plans, provider networks, and healthcare technology companies to understand their most pressing challenges - from managing high call volumes to reducing administrative burden and building AI agents that transform how they operate at scale.
• Navigate healthcare complexity: You’ll develop deep expertise in healthcare systems and workflows, including integrations across EHR and patient access platforms, payer and provider operations, and common healthcare data and interoperability standards. You’ll become fluent in the nuances of benefits and eligibility, claims and billing, scheduling and intake, and translate that understanding into exceptional, trustworthy AI experiences.
• Build the future of the platform: Your direct work with healthcare customers will guide the evolution of Sierra's core platform. You'll surface unmet needs, prototype new tools and features, and collaborate with research, product, and platform to shape the future of AI agent development in healthcare.

Benefits

• Flexible (Unlimited) Paid Time Off
• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
• Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
• Retirement Plan (e.g. 401K, pension) with Sierra match
• Parental Leave
• Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
• Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
• Discretionary Benefit Stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
• Free alphorn lessons

What This Job Offers

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