Senior Applied AI Engineer (Healthcare)

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

Salary: $220,000–$270,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is an AI-native healthcare platform that supports family caregivers and helps health plans and government partners improve home-based care, billing, and compliance.

What you will do

• Own Applied AI initiatives from workflow discovery and technical design through production deployment, iteration, and measurable outcomes.
• Build reliable AI agents and copilots that reason over structured and unstructured data, use internal tools, and execute multi-step workflows.
• Design systems combining models, retrieval, rules, state machines, and human oversight to handle uncertainty and operational edge cases.
• Create evaluation datasets, evaluation harnesses, production tracing, confidence-based escalation, and systematic error-analysis processes.
• Integrate AI capabilities into healthcare, intake, care delivery, billing, and operational workflows with Product, Design, Clinical, Operations, Analytics, Platform, and engineering partners.
• Develop reusable platform capabilities, influence architecture, mentor engineers, and improve Applied AI engineering practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering, machine learning, or Applied AI experience.
• Experience building and operating AI- or machine-learning-powered systems in production.
• Hands-on experience with language models, retrieval systems, structured generation, model APIs, or agent architectures.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including backend systems, APIs, data modeling, testing, and observability.
• Experience designing evaluations, analyzing probabilistic systems, owning ambiguous cross-functional problems, and deciding when deterministic methods or human review are required.
• Must reside in or be willing to permanently relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nice to have

• Experience with model fine-tuning, post-training, reinforcement learning, synthetic data, multimodal models, document intelligence, knowledge graphs, ontologies, workflow engines, or state machines.
• Experience in healthcare, fintech, insurance, or another regulated and operations-intensive environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage, including a $0 deductible PPO and company-funded HSA.
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance, HSA contributions, optional FSA, and commuter benefits.
• Paid time off, 10 paid company holidays, and paid parental leave.
• 401(k) account fees are fully covered; employer matching is not currently offered.
• Mission-driven startup culture focused on families first, urgency with precision, resourcefulness, positivity, and challenging outdated healthcare systems.