Cognita · 19 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer
Menlo Park, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/StaffCognita is on a mission to increase the world’s access to healthcare, particularly in radiology, which is uniquely positioned for AI advancements. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will build full-stack systems that integrate AI models into real clinical workflows, focusing on radiologist voice dictation and report generation.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Build and operate frontend and backend services that support Cognita’s radiology platform
Build radiology reporting systems that transform model outputs and radiologist voice dictation into structured radiology reports
Develop workflows for report drafting, editing, and clinician sign-off
Work with large volumes of structured and unstructured data, including imaging metadata and model outputs
Ensure platform services are reliable, secure, low-latency, and scalable
Collaborate closely with ML training, evaluation, and infrastructure teams to integrate inference into production workflows
Own services end-to-end, from design and implementation through deployment and operation
Qualification
Required
Strong experience building full-stack systems in production
Experience designing and operating cloud-based services, ideally on AWS
Comfort building and owning API-driven, data-intensive systems
Experience with distributed systems and production reliability
Familiarity with a modern backend stack, such as: AWS (e.g., EC2, S3, ECS/EKS, IAM, CloudWatch), Python backend services (e.g. FastAPI or similar), PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
Strong ownership mindset and good systems judgment
Preferred
Experience with report generation, structured text pipelines, or document workflows
Familiarity with ML inference pipelines or AI-powered products
Experience working in healthcare or other regulated environments
Company
Cognita
2-10 employeesFunding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase