Pelago
AI Product Engineer
$190K–$215K
New York, NY +1 · Full-time · Posted Jun 12, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
Manhattan, New York, United States - Visa sponsorship
- Unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.
About the job
Own product engineering problems end-to-end, building and iterating on secure, reliable software for behavioral health care in collaboration with product, design, data, and clinical teams.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, and evolve software across backend, frontend, and data surfaces; take product areas from discovery through production and iteration.
- Use data, experimentation, and user feedback to evaluate solutions and improve member outcomes.
- Improve engineering practices, including AI-native development, testing, documentation, observability, and review quality.
What they ask for
- Strong production experience building product software in a startup or scale-up environment.
- Excellent TypeScript/Node capability and comfort with APIs, services, data, and cloud infrastructure.
- Strong product sense and ability to work autonomously in ambiguous environments and make trade-offs.
- Solid testing, observability, and reliability instincts; fluent with AI-augmented engineering workflows while maintaining human judgment and QA discipline.
Nice to have
- Experience in healthcare, digital health, or safety-sensitive regulated software.
- Experience with event-driven systems, serverless AWS, relational database design, infrastructure as code, experimentation, analytics, or growth/product instrumentation.
Pay
$190,000 — $215,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript/Node, AWS
AI focus
Use AI-augmented engineering workflows and help shape AI-native development practices; the posting also describes Pelago’s Sona voice-first AI Mental Health Specialist.
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