AI-Forward Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

AI-Forward Engineer (AI): Implementing AI-powered tools and workflows to accelerate product, engineering, and operational teams with an accent on agentic coding, CI/CD optimization, and model evaluation. Focus on building internal AI-native intelligence platforms, automating testing pipelines, and prototyping cutting-edge AI integrations.

Location: Hybrid in Redwood City, California (2-3 days in office required)

Salary: $150,000 – $250,000

Company

Nimble is a healthtech startup on a mission to simplify healthcare access by building a technology-first pharmacy business.

What you will do

• Collaborate across product, engineering, and operations to translate business pain points into AI-enabled solutions.
• Implement AI-assisted developer tooling and agentic coding workflows using Claude Code and AI-enhanced CI/CD pipelines.
• Evaluate and integrate frontier models (Claude, Gemini, GPT) into team workflows for reasoning and coding.
• Build AI-augmented testing pipelines and automate codebase refactoring through AST-based tooling.
• Create internal AI interfaces, such as chat-based assistants and Slack integrations, for non-technical stakeholders.
• Establish organizational best practices for agentic engineering, model evaluation, and cost management.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in engineering or DevOps roles.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages, including TypeScript, Java, and Python.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, GitHub Actions, and AWS.
• Practical experience building with frontier AI models or agentic coding tools.
• Must be based in or able to work hybrid in Redwood City, CA (2-3 days per week).
• A strong bias for shipping prototypes quickly over perfecting final versions.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, including a 401(k) package.
• Generous vacation policy: 15 days in the first year, increasing to 20 days after one year.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Direct access to executives and a transparent, ego-free company culture.
• Accelerated career growth opportunity within a fast-scaling healthtech startup.