Founding AI Agent Engineer

About the Role

Build and own production conversational AI agents that help connect patients with relevant clinical trials. You will shape a patient-facing agent system in healthtech, where reliable, personalized communication and safety in a regulated setting are essential.

What You'll Do

• Orchestrate AI agents to coordinate patient recruitment across multiple clinical trials.
• Review production conversations, identify failure scenarios, build evaluations, and use results to improve the agent harness.
• Integrate health profile data sources to support timely outreach and patient qualification.
• Scale consistent, personalized language model experiences across voice, SMS, and email.
• Apply current agent research and tooling to the product's core software systems.

What We're Looking For

• 0 to 4 years of software engineering, agent engineering, or applied AI experience.
• Experience focused on building production AI agents or large-scale AI applications, including conversational agents and agent harnesses beyond prototypes.
• Experience developing evaluation and tracing infrastructure for AI agents.
• Applied LLM experience and a strong full-stack engineering foundation; familiarity with tools such as LangGraph, Vercel AI SDK, voice AI, SMS APIs, multi-agent orchestration, and CTMS or CRM integrations is relevant.
• An undergraduate degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent strong technical foundations.
• Healthtech or life sciences experience, or a strong interest in the field, is beneficial.
• Strong ownership, persistence, and ability to work through ambiguous technical problems.
• Must be 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.