Conversational AI · Python · NLP
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an early-stage healthtech company building conversational AI to support patient recruitment for clinical trials. As a founding engineer on the agent team, you will own production AI systems that communicate with patients across multiple channels in a regulated setting.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and orchestrate AI agents that coordinate recruitment across multiple clinical trials.
- Review production conversation traces, identify failure scenarios, develop evaluations, and improve the agent harness.
- Integrate health profile data sources to help agents reach patients at relevant times and support trial recruitment.
- Scale language model experiences across voice, SMS, and email while maintaining consistent, personalized conversations.
- Evaluate emerging agent research and tooling and incorporate useful advances into the software platform.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Zero to four years of experience as a software engineer, agent engineer, or applied AI engineer.
- Experience focused on building agents and large-scale AI applications, including conversational agents or agent harnesses used in production.
- Experience developing evaluation and tracing infrastructure for AI agents, beyond personal projects or prototypes.
- Working knowledge of conversational AI, LLMs, agent orchestration, LangGraph or the Vercel AI SDK, voice AI, and SMS integrations.
- Strong software and computer science fundamentals, supported by an undergraduate degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field.
- Resourcefulness, strong work ethic, and ab