Founding AI Agent Engineer

About the Role

Build the patient-facing AI agent powering a clinical trial recruitment platform. You will help develop safe, scalable conversational AI that connects patients with relevant research opportunities in a regulated healthcare setting.

What You'll Do

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

• Review production conversations, identify failure scenarios, develop evaluations, and improve the agent harness.

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

• Scale language model experiences across voice, SMS, and email while keeping conversations consistent and personalized.

• Evaluate emerging agent tools and research, and incorporate relevant advances into the software platform.

What We're Looking For

• Zero to four years of experience in software engineering, agent engineering, or applied AI.

• Professional experience building conversational agents and agent harnesses at scale, beyond prototypes or personal projects.

• 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 integrations, and CRM or clinical trial management integrations.

• Consumer-facing AI product experience and an interest in health technology are valuable.

• Authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship, and able to work on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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.