Founding AI Agent Engineer

Job description

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.