Hippocratic AI · 1 day ago
ML/Backend Research Engineer
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expHippocratic AI is the leading generative AI company in healthcare, known for their innovative approach to safe clinical conversations with patients. The ML/Backend Research Engineer will be responsible for developing scalable backend systems and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance AI applications in healthcare.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIHealth CareInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Build the next generation of voice agents
Work with an interdisciplinary team
Develop a highly scalable infrastructure for LLM processing
Develop and maintain scalable backend systems to support high-performance AI applications in healthcare
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists and ML engineers, to design and build efficient data pipelines for large-scale healthcare datasets
Build and manage APIs and microservices that enable smooth data retrieval, processing, and interaction with AI models
Monitor and improve backend systems to optimize performance, reliability, and uptime
Work closely with product managers to understand healthcare requirements and help transform them into technical solutions
Develop and optimize backend infrastructure supporting data ingestion, feature extraction, and tagging workflows
Implement tag management and metadata systems to streamline dataset organization and retrieval
Contribute to end-to-end ML workflows, integrating data preparation, training, evaluation, and deployment into reproducible pipelines
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. (Master's is preferred)
5+ years of experience in backend development using programming languages like Python, Golang, or similar
Experience building and maintaining multi-modal data pipelines (speech, vision, and text) using Ray or Apache Airflow for distributed processing and model experimentation
Distributed computing with Spark, Hadoop, or similar
Familiarity with relational database systems and RESTful APIs
Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP)
Preferred
Exposure to AI/ML concepts or experience working with LLMs
Experience working in teams that handle sensitive or regulated data
Familiarity with gRPC, graphQL or similar
Experience with real-time audio
Exposure to DevOps concepts - CI/CD, deployment, terraform, build systems
Experience with data science
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)
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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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