AI Engineer
- $170,000.00 to $250,000.00
- San Francisco United States
About the Company Our client is a venture-backed startup on a mission to make quality healthcare accessible to everyone. They're combining cutting edge AI with real clinical expertise to build a product that genuinely changes how people experience and receive care. The team is lean, ambitious and moving fast — and they're looking for people who want to build something that matters.
This is a hands-on, high ownership AI engineering role for someone who wants to be close to the product and close to the problem. You'll work across the AI stack — from the models and data systems that power the core product to the voice and video experiences that patients interact with directly.
What You'll Be Building
Intelligent Product Features Design and ship AI-powered features that handle complex reasoning and decision making. You'll build the logic that keeps autonomous behavior safe, accurate and useful in a high stakes environment.
Data and Retrieval Systems Build the infrastructure that keeps information accurate, traceable and fast. You'll work on the pipelines, search systems and knowledge bases that the product depends on — making sure what gets surfaced is reliable and grounded in quality sources.
Conversational AI Develop real-time voice and video capabilities that feel natural, responsive and empathetic. You'll work on everything from speech models and language understanding to the conversational logic that makes interactions feel human.
Model Development and Evaluation Fine-tune and adapt foundation models for a specialized, high stakes domain. You'll design training pipelines, build evaluation frameworks and run experiments to continuously improve model quality, safety and performance.
Production Reliability Instrument and monitor AI systems in production — tracking performance, catching drift and building the observability that keeps everything running cleanly at scale.
What You Bring
- Python skills and experience shipping production AI or ML systems
- Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering and AI-powered product development
- Comfort working across the stack from data infrastructure to production debugging
- Experience with system design, schema migrations and data pipeline development
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL and AWS
Why This Role This is a rare opportunity to work on AI that has genuine real world stakes — where the quality of what you build directly affects people's lives. If you're energized by hard problems, fast iteration and being part of something early — this is the role for you.
Interested? Apply and I'll be in touch if there's a fit! We partner with a number of exciting clients across the industry, so even if this particular role isn't the perfect match, another opportunity might be just around the corner.