Applied AI Technical Lead (Healthcare)

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

Salary: $230,000–$290,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

Builds an AI-native operating system and platform for family-led, home-based care, combining clinical oversight with technology for intake, care delivery, billing, and compliance.

What you will do

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for a major Applied AI domain.
• Translate ambiguous healthcare and operational problems into production-ready AI systems.
• Architect and build agentic systems that reason over complex information, use internal tools, and execute workflows end to end.
• Lead engineers through system design, implementation, evaluation, launches, and iteration while mentoring senior and junior engineers.
• Establish human-in-the-loop controls based on confidence, risk, reversibility, and regulatory requirements.
• Build reusable capabilities for retrieval, orchestration, tool use, structured outputs, tracing, feedback, evaluation, and production monitoring.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning, or Applied AI.
• Experience technically leading AI-powered products or platforms from delivery through production.
• Hands-on experience with language models, agent architectures, retrieval, tool use, structured outputs, and evaluation.
• Strong software engineering and system-design fundamentals, including backend systems, APIs, distributed systems, and data modeling.
• Experience working with complex, incomplete, or unstructured real-world data and defining monitoring for probabilistic systems.
• Strong product judgment, communication, cross-functional collaboration, technical leadership, and mentoring skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with fine-tuning, post-training, reinforcement learning, synthetic data, knowledge graphs, workflow engines, or state machines.
• Experience in healthcare, fintech, insurance, or another regulated and operations-intensive industry.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including a $0 deductible PPO and company-funded HSA.
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance, HSA contributions, optional FSA, commuter benefits, and paid 401(k) account fees.
• Paid time off, 10 paid company holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Mission-driven culture focused on families, urgency with precision, resourcefulness, positivity, and redefining healthcare.