Healthcare AI Startup · 16 hours ago
Staff AI Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $300K/yr
7+ years expHealthcare AI Startup is an early stage startup focused on building AI-driven healthcare products that impact patient care. They are seeking a Senior/Staff AI Software Engineer to take ownership of backend services and AI applications, mentor other engineers, and collaborate across teams to improve healthcare outcomes.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Taking end-to-end ownership of key backend services and AI-driven applications that power a modern microservice ecosystem
Designing, building, and operating scalable, resilient, event-driven systems using Python, FastAPI, GraphQL, Kafka, and related technologies
Integrating and developing fundamental LLM agents and RAG/agentic workflows that deliver real product value
Working closely with DevOps to improve deployment, monitoring, and reliability
Owning vector search and embeddings pipelines from schema design through benchmarking and optimization
Mentoring and guiding other engineers, driving best practices through code reviews and technical leadership
Collaborating across product and engineering teams to define requirements, iterate features, and represent the architecture to stakeholders
Qualification
Required
7+ years of backend development experience with strong Python expertise in production environments
Proven ability designing and shipping production-quality ML and AI systems, including RAG, agentic workflows, and LLM services
Deep experience with async Python, microservices, GraphQL, message queues, and distributed systems
Strong understanding of PostgreSQL and database modelling at scale
Familiarity with containerization, cloud infrastructure, and reliability tooling (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
Excellent communication skills and a pragmatic, product-focused approach to technical decision-making
Preferred
Experience with LangChain, vector databases, and tracing/evaluation tooling a strong plus
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Company
Healthcare AI Startup
2-10 employeesFunding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase