Founding AI Agent Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

Build the patient-facing AI agent powering a clinical trial recruitment platform. You will help develop safe, scalable conversational AI that connects patients with relevant research opportunities in a regulated healthcare setting.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Orchestrate AI agents that coordinate patient recruitment across multiple clinical trials.
• Review production conversations, identify failure scenarios, develop 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 keeping conversations consistent and personalized.
• Evaluate emerging agent tools and research, and incorporate relevant advances into the software platform.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Zero to four years of experience in software engineering, agent engineering, or applied AI.
• Professional experience building conversational agents and agent harnesses at scale, beyond prototypes or personal projects.
• Experience developing evaluation and tracing infrastructure for AI agents.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and an undergraduate degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field.
• Familiarity with conversational AI, LLMs, agent orchestration, LangGraph, Vercel AI SDK, voice AI, SMS integrations, and CRM or clinical trial management integrations.
• Consumer-facing AI product experience and an interest in health technology are valuable.
• 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.