SmarterDx

Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Applied AI)

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Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$190k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and launch backend services and product capabilities incorporating LLMs, machine learning models, and other AI systems.
  • Build production workflows for model inference, structured outputs, tool use, retrieval, agentic workflows, and other LLM application patterns.
  • Partner with Data Scientists and related teams to productionize models and experimental approaches.
  • Develop evaluation, observability, feedback, and monitoring mechanisms for AI systems in production.
  • Design reliable backend architectures that handle probabilistic and non-deterministic model behavior at scale.
  • Work with structured and unstructured clinical and operational data, including documents and images.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, data science, and clinical teams to iterate on product ideas.
  • Apply secure coding and data-handling practices to protect patient privacy and security.
  • Research and advocate for improved applied AI techniques, architectures, and development practices.
  • Support SmarterDx applications and AI systems in production.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software development experience, including significant backend and cloud-based systems experience.
  • Expertise in Python and/or TypeScript with strong software engineering fundamentals.
  • Production experience building LLM-powered applications and integrating models into larger software systems.
  • Experience collaborating with Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, or research-oriented teams.
  • Experience designing APIs, services, data models, and asynchronous or event-driven workflows.
  • Experience with Postgres or a similar relational database and cloud-native distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with evaluating, debugging, and monitoring AI systems in production.
  • Strong judgment regarding reliability, testing, observability, and failure handling for systems with probabilistic outputs.
  • Experience working in a security-conscious environment and strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred experience includes traditional machine learning and generative AI applications, LangChain or LangGraph, Langfuse or Braintrust, retrieval-augmented generation, tool-calling, agentic workflows, computer vision, multimodal models, document understanding, OCR pipelines, evaluation datasets, human-in-the-loop workflows, Kubernetes, HL7/FHIR, Snowflake, Datadog, and health tech.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans with providers covering 75% of premiums depending on the plan.
  • Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for birth or adoption.
  • Fully remote within the United States with a remote-first team.
  • Unlimited paid time off and 11 holidays.
  • 401(k) traditional and Roth options through Fidelity with a 4% match.
  • Fast-moving, low-bureaucracy environment with mission-driven colleagues.
SmarterDx

About SmarterDx

501-1,000 employees

SmarterDx is bringing clinical AI to the revenue cycle, starting where the old systems break down: clinical complexity. Founded by physician-technologists, our platform finds the evidence hidden across the patient record and helps hospital teams validate the findings that drive reimbursement, quality, and denials outcomes. Trusted by 85+ leading health systems to deliver 5:1 ROI starting Day 1, SmarterDx helps ensure hospitals get credit for the care they deliver — and that every chart tells the most accurate and complete patient story.

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