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Startup building autonomous AI clinicians

Principal/Staff Software Engineer

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You'll work directly with hospitals and clinics to deploy and refine enterprise-grade systems - AI-driven patient communication and triage, agent orchestration, and secure healthcare data layers with low-latency voice and video.

This is a hands-on, Python-heavy role focused on building and scaling distributed systems and solving complex, high-impact problems. At the principal/staff level, you'll own system architecture and reliability at scale while supporting and guiding other engineers.

What You'll Do

  • Architect and scale AI agents for healthcare applications

  • Work on systems involving LLMs, reinforcement learning, and agent-based architectures

  • Collaborate with a small team to ship and iterate quickly

  • Solve high-impact problems, including system performance and clinical accuracy

  • Design system architecture and own reliability at scale

  • Support team members through code reviews and knowledge sharing

What You'll Bring

  • 7+ years building complex, production-grade systems

  • Systems thinking: designing scalable systems and owning architecture decisions

  • Problem solving: turning ambiguous requirements into scalable solutions

  • Leadership: supporting other engineers through code reviews and technical guidance

  • Low ego, high agency, and comfort in a fast-moving environment

Nice to Have

  • A background in healthcare, AI, or agentic systems

Skills

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