Applied AI Engineer (Healthcare)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, California, with four days per week in person. Must reside in or be willing to permanently relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Salary: $175K–$235K plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is an AI-native healthcare company building an operating system for family-led home care, combining clinical oversight with technology for care delivery, billing, compliance, and operational transparency.

What you will do

• Build AI-powered agents, copilots, and intelligent workflows for caregivers, clinicians, and operational teams.
• Develop backend services, APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and reusable AI components for production use.
• Create systems that extract, retrieve, and reason over clinical documents, conversations, operational records, and structured data.
• Prepare datasets, build evaluations, measure performance, analyze failures, and improve models, prompts, retrieval, and workflow logic.
• Partner with Product, Design, Clinical, and Operations to understand workflows, identify edge cases, and iterate from production feedback.
• Strengthen engineering foundations through maintainable code, testing, orchestration, tool use, structured outputs, monitoring, tracing, and evaluation.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional software engineering, machine learning, or Applied AI experience, or equivalent demonstrated ability.
• Strong programming skills and software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience building applications with language models, machine-learning models, or modern AI APIs.
• Familiarity with backend development, APIs, data processing, testing, and production software systems.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, test assumptions, iterate based on evidence, and communicate clearly.
• Must reside in or be willing to permanently relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nice to have

• Experience with Python, agent architectures, retrieval-augmented generation, document intelligence, multimodal models, structured generation, model evaluation, monitoring, or prompt optimization.
• Experience in healthcare, fintech, insurance, another regulated environment, a startup, or an operations-intensive business.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with a mission focused on improving family-led home care.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including a $0 deductible PPO and company-funded HSA.
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance.
• Paid time off, 10 paid company holidays, and paid parental leave.
• HSA contributions, optional FSA and commuter benefits, and coverage of 401(k) account fees.
• Values include urgency with precision, resourcefulness, positivity, and challenging outdated healthcare systems.