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Software Engineer, Voice AI

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About Sage Care

Sage Care is a fast-growing, early-stage healthcare startup founded by exceptional leaders from Apple, Uber, Carbon Health and backed by top-tier venture capital (General Catalyst, Chelsea Clinton). With a strong customer pipeline, Sage Care is transforming healthcare by simplifying care navigation.

Our platform makes it easier for patients to find the right doctor, helps providers focus on those who need them most, and ensures faster access to care, delivering better care and stronger economic outcomes at scale through harnessing the latest AI innovations.

Building on our successful collaborations with health systems across the U.S., we have expanded internationally to the MENA region. We are now partnering with health systems there to deploy our AI-powered care navigation platform.

About the Role

Our AI voice agents talk to real patients every day. This role is where those conversations get better.

We are hiring a product-minded Software Engineer to help build and improve Sage Care's voice AI platform. You will ship features to production, debug issues from live calls, and improve how our agents perform in practice. This is a hands-on role where you will learn how AI systems behave in the real world and what it takes to make them reliable, fast, and genuinely helpful to the person on the phone.

You will work closely with experienced engineers and product to deliver high-quality voice experiences for patients and providers, with real ownership from your first weeks.

What You'll Do

  • Build and ship features for AI-powered voice experiences

  • Debug issues from real calls and improve system behavior

  • Work with the components of a production voice stack: transcription, LLMs, and APIs

  • Help improve latency, reliability, and conversation quality

  • Contribute to testing, monitoring, and observability

  • Collaborate closely with product to iterate on user experience

What We're Looking For

Required

  • 2 to 3 years of software engineering experience

  • Strong programming skills (Python preferred)

  • Experience building backend systems, APIs, or services that handle real user requests

  • Product mindset: cares about user experience and outcomes

  • Eagerness to learn and work in a fast-paced environment

  • Comfortable with ambiguity and problem-solving

Nice to Have

  • Exposure to AI/ML or LLM-based applications

  • Experience with real-time systems or APIs

  • Interest in voice systems or conversational AI

  • Experience at a startup or small team

What Success Looks Like

  • Ships features that improve real patient and provider experience

  • Can debug and fix issues in production with guidance

  • Gains a working understanding of how AI systems behave in practice

  • Contributes to improving system reliability and performance

  • Grows into owning components end-to-end

Why This Role Matters

Most engineers wait years to work on systems that matter this directly. Here, the code you ship changes whether a patient reaches care today. You will learn production AI from engineers who operate it every day, on a system where quality is not abstract: it is a phone call with a person who needs help.

What this application asks

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Name, Email, Resume, Where are you currently based?

  • LinkedIn
  • Our interview process includes a take-home assignment, Zoom interviews and in-person interviews with the team in the office in Palo Alto, CA. Are you comfortable moving forward? yes / no
  • Our hybrid work policy requires people to work in the office in Palo Alto, CA Tuesday-Thursday. Would you be able to do this? yes / no
  • Are you legally authorized to work in the United States? yes / no
  • If you were to join Sage Care, when would be your earliest start date?
  • What is your proficiency with Claude Code? choose one
  • Please share one project or system you’ve worked on that you’re most proud of (professional or personal). written answer
  • How did you hear about this position? written answer
  • Thank you for going through the application so far! Is there anything else you’d like us to know? written answer · optional

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