Staff Software Engineer

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San Francisco / $200000 - $350000 annum

INFO

Salary

SALARY:

$200000 - $350000

Location

LOCATION

San Francisco

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform · Full-Time


About the Role

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our AI platform team at a fast-growing, healthcare-focused startup. This is a hands-on technical leadership role - you'll be the person who dreams up what's possible, architects the solution, writes the code, and then hands off polished specs

You won't be managing people. You'll be doing the work: designing agentic AI workflows, building generative AI features, and thinking creatively about what could make our platform genuinely better for the people using it. If you've ever been the person in the room who says "what if we just built it this way" and then goes home and actually builds it - this role is for you.


What You'll Do

  • Design, architect, and implement agentic AI and generative AI workflows that power core platform capabilities
  • Take ownership from idea to implementation - whiteboard it, validate it, ship it
  • Identify creative, non-obvious opportunities to leverage AI across the platform and bring those ideas to life
  • Contribute to marketing technology initiatives and help build commercially viable AI models

What We're Looking For

  • Proven experience building agentic AI systems or AI-powered chatbots from scratch - not just integrating APIs, but architecting the underlying system
  • Strong Python skills across relevant frameworks - Django, Flask, and/or FastAPI
  • Comfort with the full development lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, validation, and iteration
  • Experience building and deploying on AWS
  • Ability to code without relying on AI-assisted tooling - you understand what you're writing and why
  • A builder mentality - you move fast, think creatively, and take pride in shipping things that work
  • Frontend experience with React is a plus, though backend depth is what matters most here

Nice to Have

  • Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar agentic frameworks
  • Background in healthcare, health tech, or a similarly regulated industry
  • Experience working with distributed or cross-timezone engineering teams

Why This Role

  • Greenfield AI work - you'll have real influence over what gets built and how
  • Collaborate with a tight-knit, high-trust international team
  • Meaningful domain - the work you do will have a direct impact on how healthcare is delivered
  • Salary range up to 350k for the right level

CONTACT

Tim Lucas

Manager

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