Hinge Health
Staff Software Engineer, Brain Health, AI
San Francisco-HQ · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 6, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of practical software engineering experience; includes meaningful time shipping AI-powered products to real users.
- Education
- At minimum a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related field.
About the job
Leads architecture and development of AI-powered Brain Health products, including personalized conversational therapy and education for pain treatment.
What you'll do
- Architect and scale agentic AI systems for multi-session therapy aligned with clinical protocols.
- Design a centralized service for personalized pain science education and mindset strategies.
- Set technical strategy, mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and participate in weekly on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of practical software engineering experience, including meaningful time shipping AI-powered products to real users.
- At minimum a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Led end-to-end design and delivery of complex user-facing products across product surfaces, backend services, and AI/ML systems.
Nice to have
- Experience in early-stage or fast-moving environments, ideally building products from 0 to 1.
- Depth with LLMs, including prompt engineering, RAG, agentic systems, and evals; fullstack foundation such as Python or TypeScript/NestJS.
Pay
$222.4K – $305K (base salary); equity offered, amount not stated.
Tools
LLMs, Python, TypeScript/NestJS
AI focus
Build agentic AI systems for personalized, multi-session pain reprocessing therapy and mindfulness, plus AI-driven personalized education; the systems should retain context, demonstrate emotional intelligence, and follow clinical protocols.
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