Founding AI Agent Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an early-stage healthtech company developing AI agents for clinical trial recruitment and patient support. You will build and own patient-facing conversational agents, helping research teams connect with eligible participants while maintaining safe, consistent experiences in a regulated setting.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Build and orchestrate AI agents that coordinate patient recruitment across multiple clinical trials.
• Review production conversations, identify failure scenarios, develop evaluations, and use results to improve agent infrastructure.
• Integrate health profile data sources to support timely outreach and patient qualification.
• Scale language-model conversations across voice, SMS, and email while maintaining consistent, personalized interactions.
• Evaluate and incorporate advances in agent tooling and research 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 conversational agents and agent harnesses for real users at scale, beyond prototypes or internal tools.
• 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, multi-agent orchestration, voice or SMS systems, and tools such as LangGraph or Vercel AI SDK.
• An undergraduate degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent strong technical foundations.
• Interest or experience in healthtech, healthcare, or life sciences is valuable.
• A proactive, resourceful approach to solving difficult engineering problems.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary is $150,000 to $220,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

LOCATION

On-site in California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area.