Applied AI Engineer (Healthcare)

Location: New York City, United States; in-person in NYC 5 days a week

Salary: $150K–$220K annually plus equity

Company

hirify.global Health is a Series A company building an AI-native care platform to expand access to affordable, timely, clinically effective mental healthcare in partnership with psychiatrists.

What you will do

• Build and ship AI-native product experiences used by clinicians and patients.
• Design and develop LLM-powered systems and agents that automate and augment complex healthcare workflows.
• Own AI features from prototyping and experimentation through production deployment, evaluation, and iteration.
• Build evaluation, monitoring, and feedback systems to improve AI quality, reliability, and performance.
• Work across models, prompts, tools, retrieval systems, and application infrastructure to solve product problems.
• Collaborate with clinicians and engineers to identify high-impact applications of AI in healthcare workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience in high-quality environments.
• Experience building and shipping LLM-powered applications or AI products in production.
• Fluency in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Experience with modern LLM APIs, agentic systems, tool calling, retrieval, structured outputs, or similar applied AI patterns.
• Ability to reason rigorously about evaluations, reliability, latency, cost, and failure modes.
• Comfort moving across the stack and experimenting with new models, frameworks, and techniques.
• Authorized to work in the United States and able to work in person in NYC 5 days a week.
• Strong ownership, autonomy, experimentation, ambiguity tolerance, and commitment to high-quality, high-velocity work.

Culture & Benefits

• Startup environment with exposure to scaling from 0 to 1 to n.
• High trust, autonomy, and ownership of meaningful technical and product decisions.
• Direct impact on access to mental healthcare for patients and clinicians.
• Competitive salary, equity, and growth opportunities.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance; unlimited PTO; team outings and offsites.
• Sunny NYC office with snacks and a focus on outcomes rather than hours.