Founding AI Agent Engineer

About the Role

Join a healthtech team building conversational AI agents for clinical trial recruitment and participant support. You will own the development of a patient-facing agent, helping make trial recruitment more efficient while building for safety in a regulated healthcare environment.

What You'll Do

• Orchestrate AI agents that coordinate recruitment across multiple clinical trials.

• Review production conversations, identify challenging scenarios, turn them into evaluations, and improve the agent harness.

• Integrate health profile data sources to support timely outreach and patient qualification.

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

• Evaluate new agent research and tooling and incorporate suitable approaches into the software platform.

What We're Looking For

• 0 to 4 years of experience as a software engineer, agent engineer, or applied AI engineer.

• Substantial experience building conversational agents and agent harnesses for real-world use at scale, beyond prototypes or internal tools.

• Experience developing evaluation and tracing infrastructure for AI agents.

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

• Familiarity with conversational AI, LLMs, agent orchestration, LangGraph, Vercel AI SDK, voice AI, SMS APIs, and healthcare data integrations.

• Healthtech experience or interest is valued, as is experience building consumer-facing AI products.

• Must be able to work on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area, start within four weeks, and work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States.