Founding AI Agent Engineer

About the Role

Join an early-stage healthtech team building conversational AI to help recruit and support participants in clinical trials. You will own the development of patient-facing agents, with a focus on making them reliable, safe, and effective in a regulated environment.

What You'll Do

• Build and orchestrate AI agents that coordinate participant recruitment across multiple clinical trials.

• Analyze production conversations, identify failure scenarios, and turn them into evaluations that improve the agent harness.

• Integrate health profile data sources to help agents contact and qualify potential participants at relevant times.

• Develop consistent, personalized agent experiences across voice, SMS, and email.

• Evaluate emerging agent tools and research, incorporating useful advances into the software platform.

What We're Looking For

• 0 to 4 years of experience in software engineering, agent engineering, or applied AI.

• Demonstrated experience building conversational agents and agent harnesses for real users at scale, beyond prototypes or internal tools.

• Experience with production tracing and evaluation infrastructure for AI agents.

• Applied LLM experience and familiarity with agent orchestration, voice or messaging systems, or related technologies.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including an undergraduate degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field.

• Self-directed, hardworking, and able to make progress through ambiguous technical challenges.

• Healthtech or life sciences experience, or a strong interest in applying AI to healthcare, is valuable.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $150,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in California, United States.