Senior AI Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Senior AI Engineer (Healthcare)

Location : New York City — On-site

Employment Type : Full-time | Department : Engineering

Compensation : $200,000–$350,000 + Equity

Overview

We're hiring a world-class Senior AI Engineer to build cutting-edge systems for an AI doctor platform. You'll design and deploy safety-critical, production AI that delivers diagnostic reasoning, chronic disease management, and seamless healthcare data processing—all with rigorous accuracy and clinical safeguards.

What You'll Build

Core AI Architecture

Multi-agent consensus : specialized models debate cases before reaching conclusions.

RAG at scale : pipelines ingesting thousands of clinical guidelines curated for LLMs.

Real-time inference : optimize latency and throughput for millions of daily consultations.

Domain workflows : custom reasoning chains for condition- and specialty-specific care.

Clinical Data Systems

HIPAA-compliant NLP : extract structured data from patient conversations.

EHR connectivity : integrate with QHINs for automated retrieval / reconciliation.

Intelligent triage : route cases between AI and clinicians via complexity scoring.

Documentation : generate notes that conform to provider protocols and coding rules.

Safety & Scale Infrastructure

Emergency detection with sub-second human escalation.

Validation layers targeting 99%+ plan accuracy vs. clinical standards.

Distributed systems for explosive peak loads and rapid user growth.

Fail-safes for regulated, critical-path decisions.

You'll also tackle voice / video interfaces, multilingual medical NLP, predictive health modeling, and the platform foundation for the next billion patient interactions.

Required Qualifications

Education & Background

BS in CS (or equivalent experience). Hard-science degrees (Physics / Math / Engineering) welcome.

Startup DNA preferred : founding engineer, founder, or deep early-stage experience.

Proven self-direction with excellent cross-functional collaboration.

Technical Expertise

7+ years engineering; expert in LLMs and generative AI .

Deep experience with OpenAI GPT , Anthropic Claude , LLaMA , and other FMs.

Strong prompt engineering , fine-tuning , and model optimization in specialized domains.

Built real-time production AI systems.

Proficient in Python and TensorFlow / PyTorch ; modern AI tooling.

Preferred Qualifications

Healthcare / med-tech AI experience; familiarity with HL7 , FHIR , clinical workflows.

Safety, bias detection, and fairness in medical AI.

Domain NLP research / implementation.

Worked with clinicians or in regulated environments.

Publications in AI / ML (healthcare / safety-critical a plus).

Seed / Series A startup experience.

Advanced degree in CS / AI / ML or related field.

What We Offer

Competitive base + meaningful equity at a seed-stage company with top-tier investors.

Direct impact building AI that transforms care for millions of patients.

High autonomy and technical leadership , reporting to the CEO.

Access to cutting-edge models, tooling, and clinical advisors.

Collaboration with leading physicians and AI researchers.

Benefits reimbursement.