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Senior Applied AI Engineer

Abby Care· Analytics & Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$220k - $270kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Senior Applied AI Engineer to design and build production AI systems that automate complex, consequential healthcare workflows for Abby Care’s AI-native home care platform.

Responsibilities

  • Own high-impact AI systems end to end: From workflow discovery and technical design through production deployment, iteration, and measurable business or care outcomes.
  • Build reliable agents and copilots: Develop systems that reason over structured and unstructured data, use internal tools, and execute multi-step workflows across intake, care delivery, billing, and operations.
  • Engineer for real-world complexity: Design systems that handle incomplete information, conflicting evidence, changing requirements, and operational edge cases by combining models, retrieval, rules, state machines, and human oversight.
  • Build rigorous evaluation and monitoring: Create representative datasets, evaluation harnesses, production tracing, confidence-based escalation, and systematic error-analysis processes.
  • Integrate AI into complete workflows: Partner with Product, Design, Clinical, Operations, Analytics, Platform, and System of Record engineers to ensure AI capabilities solve real problems rather than remain isolated prototypes.
  • Raise the technical bar: Contribute reusable platform capabilities, shape architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and improve how the team builds and operates Applied AI systems.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering, machine learning, or Applied AI experience.
  • Experience building and operating AI- or ML-powered systems in production.
  • Strong hands-on experience with language models, retrieval systems, structured generation, model APIs, or agent architectures.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals: backend systems, APIs, data modeling, testing, observability.
  • Experience designing evaluations and analyzing probabilistic systems.
  • Ability to own ambiguous, cross-functional problems and drive them through implementation and iteration.
  • Strong judgment on when AI is appropriate vs deterministic approaches or human review.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and nontechnical partners.
  • Experience mentoring engineers, leading technically complex projects, or influencing architectural decisions.
  • Must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Preferred but not required: model fine-tuning, post-training, reinforcement learning, synthetic data generation, multimodal models, document intelligence, knowledge graphs, ontologies, workflow engines, or state machines.
  • Preferred but not required: experience in healthcare, fintech, insurance, or other regulated operations-intensive environments.

Skills

Required:Language modelsRetrieval systemsBackend systems

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation packages that reflect the value you bring.
  • Comprehensive health coverage with medical, dental, and vision options, including a $0 deductible PPO and company-funded HSA, plus employer-paid life and disability insurance.
  • Generous paid time off and 10 paid company holidays.
  • Financial savings benefits including HSA contributions, optional FSA and commuter benefits, and full coverage of 401(k) account fees (employer match not currently offered).
  • Paid parental leave to support growing family.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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