Founding AI Agent Engineer
Key details
- Salary
- $150K–$220K/yr
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Entry level
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 0–4 yrs
- Function
- Software engineering
- Focus area
- AI / ML
- Visa sponsorship
- No visa sponsorship
- Posted
- 3h ago
Skills
About the role
About the Role
Join an early-stage healthtech company building conversational AI to support patient recruitment for clinical trials. As a founding engineer on the AI team, you will own production agents that help patients learn about and connect with relevant trials, with a strong focus on scale, reliability, and safety.
What You'll Do
Build and orchestrate AI agents that coordinate patient recruitment across clinical trials.
Review production conversations, identify failure scenarios, develop evaluations, and use results to improve the agent harness.
Integrate health profile data sources to help agents reach patients at appropriate times and support trial screening.
Scale language model experiences across voice, SMS, and email while maintaining consistent, personalized conversations.
Evaluate emerging agent tools and research, incorporating relevant capabilities into the software platform.
What We're Looking For
Zero to four years of experience as a software engineer, agent engineer, or applied AI engineer, with substantial focus on agents or large-scale AI applications.
Experience building conversational agents and agent harnesses for real users at scale, beyond prototypes or internal tools.
Experience developing evaluation and tracing infrastructure for AI agents.
Familiarity with LLMs, multi-agent orchestration, LangGraph, Vercel AI SDK, voice AI, SMS APIs, and CTMS or CRM integrations.
Strong computer science, mathematics, or related fundamentals, typically supported by an undergraduate degree in a related field.
Self-directed, persistent, and effective at solving ambiguous engineering challenges. Healthtech experience or interest and consumer AI product experience are valued.
Authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship, able to work on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area, and available to start within four weeks.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $150,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States.
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