Hippocratic AI
AI Engineer (Senior, Staff, Senior Staff, Principal)
Menlo Park, CA · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience in software, ML, or AI engineering.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
About the job
Design, build, and deploy production AI systems for clinically safe, voice-enabled healthcare agents, including retrieval, reasoning, and real-time conversational features.
What you'll do
- Build scalable AI pipelines, RAG systems, reasoning workflows, and streaming interactions for healthcare agents.
- Partner with product, clinical, and engineering teams to create safe, human-centered AI experiences.
- Improve model evaluation, safety testing, observability, and monitoring for agent interactions.
What they ask for
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 5+ years of professional experience in software, ML, or AI engineering.
- Proven experience shipping AI- or ML-powered products in production; strong Python skills and experience with distributed systems, APIs, and data pipelines.
- Understanding of prompt engineering, vector databases, and retrieval systems (RAG); experience with cloud environments and DevOps practices.
Nice to have
- Experience deploying LLM-based or multi-agent systems at scale.
- Experience with speech recognition, text-to-speech, or real-time streaming architectures; exposure to healthcare or regulated products.
Tools
Python, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, CI/CD, RAG
AI focus
Build production-grade, clinically safe healthcare agents using LLMs, RAG, multi-step reasoning, and real-time voice interactions; improve model evaluation and safety testing.
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