Applied AI Engineer

Applied AI Engineer

Location: New York City
Company Stage: Fast-Growing AI-Native Healthcare Startup
Office Type: Onsite
Salary: $210K – $230K Base + Equity

Company Description

This AI-native healthcare company is rebuilding the health insurance experience from the ground up. Their platform combines advanced AI systems with modern healthcare infrastructure to help members navigate benefits, schedule appointments, understand healthcare decisions, and proactively manage their health. Backed by leading venture firms and built by operators from elite technical and startup environments, the company is scaling rapidly while tackling one of the largest and most complex industries in the world.

What You Will Do

• Architect and ship AI-native product experiences serving tens of thousands of users
• Build and deploy sophisticated LLM-powered agents capable of reasoning through complex healthcare workflows
• Develop and improve systems around prompt orchestration, retrieval pipelines, context engineering, and evaluation frameworks
• Build conversational AI systems that help users understand healthcare decisions, treatment plans, and benefits information
• Design and implement guardrails, red-teaming workflows, and reliability systems for production AI applications
• Own projects end-to-end across backend infrastructure, AI systems, and user-facing product experiences
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and operations teams in a high-velocity environment
• Continuously iterate on AI system quality, latency, cost efficiency, and member experience

Ideal Background

• Strong experience building and shipping full-stack AI products into production
• Deep proficiency with Python, Postgres, and modern backend engineering practices
• Experience developing production LLM applications, AI agents, or retrieval-augmented systems
• Strong product intuition with experience building 01 product experiences in startup environments
• Experience implementing AI safety, evaluation, and reliability systems including guardrails and red-teaming
• Familiarity with prompt orchestration, context engineering, and retrieval system design
• Comfortable owning ambiguous problems end-to-end with strong autonomy and execution speed
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and engineering tools

Preferred

• Experience with TypeScript and React
• Experience deploying AI workloads on cloud platforms such as AWS
• Prior experience in healthcare, fintech, or other regulated environments
• Familiarity with production evaluation frameworks for LLM systems
• Experience balancing AI performance, latency, reliability, and cost tradeoffs

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary: $210K – $230K
• Meaningful equity package
• High ownership and fast career growth opportunities
• Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI and healthcare innovation
• Collaborative, high-intensity engineering culture
• Mission-driven environment focused on improving healthcare access and outcomes
• In-person team environment in NYC with strong cross-functional collaboration