Founding AI Agent Engineer
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- $150,000–$220,000 per year
- Onsite
- Full Time
About the role
About the Role
Join an early-stage healthtech team building conversational AI agents to help recruit and support participants in clinical trials. You will own the development of patient-facing agents and the systems that make them effective, scalable, and safe in a regulated environment.
What You'll Do
Build and orchestrate AI agents that coordinate patient recruitment across multiple clinical trials.
Review production conversations, identify failure scenarios, create evaluations, and improve the agent harness.
Integrate health profile data sources to support timely, relevant patient outreach.
Develop consistent, personalized agent experiences across voice, SMS, and email.
Evaluate emerging agent research and tooling, and incorporate relevant advances into the software platform.
What We're Looking For
Zero to four years of software engineering, agent engineering, or applied AI experience.
Hands-on experience building and shipping conversational agents and agent harnesses beyond prototypes, at meaningful scale.
Experience with production tracing and evaluation infrastructure for AI agents.
Applied LLM and full-stack software engineering skills; experience with tools such as LangGraph, Vercel AI SDK, voice AI, SMS APIs, and multi-agent orchestration is relevant.
Strong computer science, mathematics, or related technical fundamentals, with an undergraduate degree in a relevant field.
Resourcefulness, persistence, and the ability to work independently through technical challenges.
Consumer AI product experience and familiarity with healthcare or life sciences are beneficial.
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.