AI Software Engineer

About the Role:

Sensible Care is now hiring an AI Software Engineer to join our AI engineering team. You’ll take on R&D projects to find novel solutions to significant healthcare problems using AI. This is a full-time in-office position based in Pasadena, CA. If using AI to help patients’ wellbeing sounds exciting and rewarding, we would love to talk to you!

Schedule: Mon-Fri 9am-6pm at our AI Lab located at: 680 E Colorado Suite 330, Pasadena, CA 91101

What You’ll Do:

The key responsibility of this position is to use the scientific method to test novel applications of AI in mental healthcare.

You’ll work with a small group of engineers, data folks, and clinicians at Sensible Care to discover new ways AI can help improve patient outcomes in mental health.

Please apply if you can:

• Run Experiments: Turn open-ended questions about mental healthcare into testable hypotheses, design experiments to evaluate them, and draw clear conclusions from the results.

• Build Prototypes: Take promising ideas from concept to working proof-of-concept quickly, using LLMs, ML models, and other AI tools to explore what’s possible for patients and providers.

• Partner with Clinicians: Work closely with therapists, psychologists, and other clinicians to understand real clinical workflows and pain points, so that solutions are grounded in sound mental health practice.

• Design for Safety and Privacy: Protect sensitive patient data in line with HIPAA and other regulations and build safeguards for risks specific to mental health.

Who You Are:

• A Builder: You love to push the limits of ML and LLMs, to find new opportunities to solve problems with AI.

• Autonomous: You can take a loosely defined idea and turn it into a proof-of-concept without much hand-holding.

• Curious: You keep up with the fast-moving AI space and enjoy experimenting with new models, tools, and techniques.

• Responsible: You take privacy, safety, and accuracy seriously, especially when patients are on the other end.

• Team Player: You’re comfortable working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams, including clinicians.

• Systematic: You won first prize at your science fair; you know how to employ the scientific method to answer questions.

• Meticulous & Detail-oriented: You leave no stone unturned when taking on a challenge and you don’t leave things to chance.

• Skeptical: You are informed by repeatable, provable facts versus hearsay

What You Need:

• 3+ years of hands-on, production-level software development experience

• Hands-on experience building with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) or ML models in production

• Strong skills in Python; experience with web or mobile application development a plus

• Familiarity with git and the basics of CI/CD

• A willingness to take initiative and ownership in a small-company environment

• Stand-out candidates will have experience in healthcare or health-tech, or experience working in a research setting

What We Offer:

• Salary: $160K–$200K

• Bonus: 15% bonus

• Meaningful equity (ISO)

• 401(k) account with contribution matching

• Gym membership stipend

• 15 vacation days, 5 sick days, and paid holidays annually

• Health, Dental, and Vision coverage for you and your family

Let’s stay in touch!

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