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AI Engineer (Senior, Staff, Senior Staff, Principal)

Hippocratic AI· R&D
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Menlo Park, CAFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior-level AI Engineer role focused on designing and building production-grade AI systems for clinically safe healthcare agents, bridging research and production, with emphasis on large language models, real-time voice, and human-centered product design.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build production-grade AI pipelines that power voice-based generative healthcare agents—architecting RAG systems, multi-step reasoning workflows, and streaming interactions that scale reliably
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, clinical, and engineering teams to translate healthcare workflows into safe, scalable, and human-centered AI experiences—bringing together research capabilities and product intuition
  • Prototype and deploy zero-to-one features using state-of-the-art LLMs, retrieval systems, and streaming architectures—balancing rapid innovation with production reliability and clinical safety
  • Develop and refine AI-native workflows that support real-time, conversational, and long-running interactions across diverse healthcare contexts, ensuring systems handle edge cases and failure modes gracefully
  • Drive continuous improvement in model evaluation, safety testing, and observability—building the measurement and monitoring infrastructure that ensures every agent interaction meets clinical safety standards
  • Contribute to technical culture through documentation, knowledge sharing, and collaboration that elevates team capabilities and product quality

Qualifications

  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 5+ years of professional experience in software, ML, or AI engineering
  • Proven track record building and shipping AI- or ML-powered products in production environments
  • Strong programming skills in Python with experience in distributed systems, APIs, and data pipelines
  • Deep understanding of prompt engineering, vector databases, and retrieval systems (RAG), voice agents or willingness to learn rapidly
  • Experience with cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure) and modern DevOps practices (Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring)

Skills

Required:PythonDistributed systemsAPIsData pipelinesPrompt engineering, vector databases, retrieval systems (RAG)Voice agents

Benefits

  • equity
  • health insurance
  • other benefits
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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