Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and productionize agent-based AI systems that improve clinical data extraction quality and reliability.
- Own the technical design and delivery of multi-step agent workflows.
- Integrate AI capabilities into existing production platforms while optimizing performance, scalability, and cost.
- Collaborate with clinical AI, engineering, and product teams to prioritize problems, define success metrics, and deliver incremental improvements.
- Develop evaluation and monitoring approaches to measure impact, guide iteration, and support safe deployment.
- Provide technical leadership through documentation, design decisions, and pragmatic tradeoffs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; advanced education or clinical/life sciences experience is a plus.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial production-system experience at scale.
- 3+ years building and shipping AI/ML-powered applications in production, including LLM-based systems and multi-step or agent-based workflows.
- Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration, structured outputs, error handling, and downstream-system integration.
- Strong Python and modern software engineering experience, including testing, code review, workflow orchestration, and work in large existing codebases.
- Experience designing and operating AI systems in cloud environments; AWS is strongly preferred.
- Experience with CI/CD, observability, production support, retrieval-based or document-centric AI systems, and regulated industries is preferred or expected as stated.
- Ability to work independently, deliver end-to-end from technical design through rollout, and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans for eligible employees and dependents.
- Free testing for Natera employees and their immediate families, plus fertility care benefits.
- Pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits, and an employee referral program.
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About Natera
Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA and precision medicine, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. We aim to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard-of-care to protect health and inform earlier, more targeted interventions that help lead to longer, healthier lives. Natera’s tests are supported by more than 325 peer-reviewed publications that demonstrate excellent performance. Natera operates ISO 13485-certified and CAP-accredited laboratories certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) in Austin, Texas, and San Carlos, California, and through Foresight Diagnostics, its subsidiary, operates an ISO 27001-certified and CAP-accredited laboratory certified under CLIA in Boulder, Colorado. Please be advised that Natera will only reach out to candidates with an @natera.com email domain. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes. https://www.natera.com/privacy/