Staff Backend AI Engineer

Selby Jennings Ltd
  • New York, NY
  • Remote
  • $180,000–$250,000 Per Year
12 days ago

Job Description

Staff Backend AI Engineer

Full-Time

Location: Remote, NYC, or South Florida

We're partnering with a well-funded healthcare technology company backed by a prominent family office and experienced operators building AI-native infrastructure for healthcare. The team is focused on solving complex operational and workflow challenges through production-grade AI systems deployed at scale.

What You'll Do

  • Design and build backend systems powering AI-driven workflows and automation.
  • Develop scalable, reliable services supporting inference pipelines, orchestration, and high-volume data processing.
  • Drive architecture across distributed systems, APIs, and platform infrastructure.
  • Partner with product, data, and domain experts to bring complex systems from concept to production.
  • Mentor engineers and help raise the overall technical bar.

Ideal Background

  • 8+ years of full-time experience building and operating production backend systems.
  • Degree in comuter science or an adjacent field
  • Strong Python expertise with deep distributed systems experience.
  • Experience deploying AI-powered products into production environments. \
  • Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Particularly interested in candidates from Big Tech, healthcare technology, digital health, healthcare infrastructure, or top-tier consulting organizations with meaningful healthcare domain exposure.
  • Experience working in fast-moving, high-growth environments is a plus.

Compensation

  • Base salary: $180,000 - $250,000
  • 20% bonus
  • Meaningful equity participation
  • Comprehensive benefits package

If you have experience building large-scale backend systems and want to apply AI to real-world healthcare problems, apply now!

  • No contracors*

Numbers & Facts

LocationNew York, NY (
Remote
)
Salary$180,000–$250,000 Per Year

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
  • Automationunmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Computer Scienceunmatched
  • Consultingunmatched
  • Data Processingunmatched
  • Distributed Computingunmatched
  • GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
  • Healthcareunmatched
  • Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
  • Mentoringunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
  • Production Systemsunmatched
  • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
  • Scalable System Developmentunmatched

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