Sr. Staff Applied AI Engineer
Qualified Health PBC3 days ago
Base Salary
$250k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the architecture and roadmap for shared agentic workflow infrastructure across multiple product lines.
- Partner with engineering leadership on build-versus-buy decisions and platform investments.
- Establish standards for LLM evaluation, deployment, safety, and monitoring and help shape AI governance.
- Serve as a technical escalation point for ambiguous, cross-product-line problems.
- Mentor Staff and Senior engineers and contribute to the applied AI career ladder.
- Evaluate emerging technologies from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and other frontier providers for adoption.
- Set technical direction and standards across multiple product lines while influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Python and a deep software engineering foundation with experience architecting systems used across multiple teams.
- At least 9 years of production software and ML engineering experience, including at least 2 years of hands-on production LLM or agentic systems work.
- Hands-on experience developing, training, fine-tuning, and evaluating machine learning models across areas such as traditional ML, deep learning, predictive modeling, or NLP.
- Experience taking ML models from experimentation through production deployment, scaling, monitoring, and ongoing optimization, including at the platform level.
- Strong understanding of ML pipelines, model serving, and MLOps, with deep expertise in platform-level AI workflow automation.
- Experience setting technical direction and standards adopted across multiple product lines and operating autonomously on ambiguous, high-stakes problems.
- Bachelor’s degree plus 11 years or master’s degree plus 9 years in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Recognized expertise in applied AI or agentic systems through talks, publications, open source, or prior platform-level roles is desirable.
- Experience with AI infrastructure in a regulated or high-stakes domain, scaling a technical function in a startup, and mentoring Staff-level engineers is desirable.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with equity eligibility; the posting also mentions equity packages.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible working hours.
- Hybrid work options.
- Inclusive, mission-driven environment focused on healthcare AI.
- Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity and inclusion.
Tech Stack
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About Qualified Health PBC
Qualified Health PBC builds an enterprise AI platform for health systems, combining workflow automation, generative AI agent development, clinical safeguards, real-time monitoring, and end-to-end governance. The company sells software and partnership-based deployment services to drive measurable clinical and financial outcomes for hospitals and health networks. Headquartered in Palo Alto, it reports reach to over 500,000 users across top U.S. health systems and is backed by investors including NEA, Transformation Capital, and SignalFire.