Founding AI Agent Engineer

About the Role

Join an early-stage healthtech company building AI agents for clinical trial recruitment. You will own the development of patient-facing conversational agents, helping connect people with relevant trials while building for safety and scale in a regulated industry.

What You'll Do

• Orchestrate AI agents that coordinate patient recruitment across clinical trials in North America.
• Review production conversations, identify failure scenarios, turn them into evaluations, and improve the agent harness.
• Integrate health profile data sources to support timely outreach and patient qualification.
• Scale language model experiences across voice, SMS, and email while maintaining consistent, personalized conversations.
• Evaluate emerging agent tools and research and incorporate them 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.
• Experience focused on building production AI agents and large-scale AI applications, including conversational agents and agent harnesses in text or voice.
• Hands-on experience developing evaluation and tracing infrastructure for AI agents.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with a full-stack background and applied LLM experience.
• Familiarity with conversational AI, agent orchestration, LLMs, LangGraph, the Vercel AI SDK, voice AI, SMS APIs, and healthcare system integrations.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Resourcefulness, strong execution, and interest in healthtech or life sciences; experience in the domain is a plus.
• Authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship and able to work on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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.