Founding AI Agent Engineer

About the Role

Join an early-stage healthtech team building AI agents for clinical trial recruitment and patient support. You will own the development of patient-facing conversational agents, helping make trial recruitment more efficient while maintaining safe, reliable interactions in a regulated field.

What You'll Do

• Build and orchestrate AI agents that coordinate patient recruitment across multiple clinical trials.
• Review production conversation traces, identify failure scenarios, create evaluations, and improve the agent harness.
• Integrate health profile data sources to support timely, relevant patient outreach and trial screening.
• Scale language model experiences across voice, SMS, and email while maintaining consistent, personalized conversations.
• Evaluate emerging agent tools and research, and incorporate useful advances 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.
• Hands-on engineering experience focused on AI agents or large-scale AI applications, including conversational agents and agent harnesses used beyond prototypes.
• Experience developing evaluations and tracing infrastructure for production AI agents.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with applied LLM experience and familiarity with tools such as LangGraph, Vercel AI SDK, voice AI, SMS APIs, and multi-agent orchestration.
• An undergraduate degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent strong technical foundations.
• A proactive, resourceful approach to solving difficult engineering problems; experience or interest in healthtech, healthcare, or life sciences is valued.
• 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.