Hippocratic AI · 15 hours ago
Principal Engineer – Platform Engineering
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
12+ years expHippocratic AI is the leading generative AI company in healthcare, focused on creating a safe and autonomous platform for clinical conversations with patients. They are seeking a Principal Engineer – Platform Engineering to design and scale their multi-cloud infrastructure that powers AI models and SaaS applications, ensuring high performance and cost efficiency.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIHealth CareInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Architect and scale the multi-cloud platform for AI inference and SaaS workloads
Lead design for performance, reliability, and cost optimization
Build automation and tooling using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD best practices
Partner with research to productionize models efficiently
Improve observability, telemetry, and incident response
Foster a culture of technical and operational excellence
Hire and mentor strong engineers to guide long-term technical strategy
Evaluate emerging technologies in AI infra, GPU orchestration, and distributed systems
Qualification
Required
12+ years in software engineering with strong experience in platform or distributed systems
Deep knowledge of AWS, GCP, or Azure, and multi-cloud architectures
Expertise in IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi) and CI/CD automation
Experience with Kubernetes, GPU orchestration, or model-serving (e.g., Ray, Triton, SGLang)
Proficiency with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog)
Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, and cost optimization
Excellent communicator and mentor; strong cross-team collaboration skills
Preferred
Experience with LLM or AI infrastructure, including large-scale inference or fine-tuning
Background in data pipelines or developer platform tooling
Exposure to hybrid-cloud or edge AI systems
Track record of technical leadership and long-term architectural vision
Company
Hippocratic AI
Hippocratic AI is a healthcare technology company that develops safety-focused large-language models for medical applications.
51-200 employees
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2025 (9)
2024 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$402MKey Investors
AvenirKleiner PerkinsNVentures
2025-11-03Series C· $126M
2025-01-09Series B· $141M
2024-09-19Series A· $17M
Leadership Team
Alex Miller
Co-Founder
Amy McCarthy
Chief Nursing Officer
Recent News
2026-01-11
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