Founding Engineer (Product, Data & Agentic AI)

Location: New York City, United States; hybrid with a minimum of three days per week in the office

Salary: $160,000–$180,000 base plus equity

Company

hirify.global is a specialist recruitment partner representing a well-funded healthcare AI startup building a revenue integrity platform for complex provider organisations.

What you will do

• Build and scale data pipelines and integrations across contracts, claims, remittance, and payment information.
• Design systems that compare expected contractual payments with actual outcomes and identify recovery opportunities.
• Develop agentic workflows that assemble evidence, generate appeal materials, and support recovery processes.
• Create evaluation, validation, and monitoring systems to detect model and agent failures before customer use.
• Partner with customers to translate operational problems into simple, low-touch product experiences.
• Architect secure multi-tenant systems and help define engineering standards, technical work, and future hiring.

Requirements

• Strong senior-level experience building and owning production software systems, including at least four to five years of substantive senior- or staff-calibre individual-contributor engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience shipping products to real customers, learning from failures, and iterating quickly.
• Experience in an early-stage startup or another environment involving significant ambiguity and individual ownership.
• Ability to make sound architectural decisions while remaining deeply hands-on.
• Genuine experience using AI tools and models to build faster, with disciplined evaluation and validation of generated output.
• Strong product judgement and ability to simplify technically complex workflows into clear user experiences.
• Confidence communicating with non-technical or AI-uncertain customers and stakeholders.
• Willingness to work from the New York City office at least three days per week.
• Ownership mindset, with the ability to investigate problems, develop solutions, and move work forward without constant direction.

Nice to have

• Mentoring, technical leadership, or early team-building experience.
• Experience with agentic AI workflows and model evaluation, data engineering and third-party integrations, claims, remittance and contract-processing systems, secure multi-tenant architecture, encryption, permissions, and protected-data handling.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time founding engineering position with substantial hands-on ownership across product, data, AI systems, and architecture.
• Become the first full-time engineer and shape the product, architecture, engineering culture, and future team.
• Meaningful percentage ownership in a well-funded early-stage company with active customer demand.
• Work directly with the CTO, founders, and customers on a technically complex, commercially valuable healthcare problem.

Hiring process

• Specific language, framework, and infrastructure details will be discussed during the process.