Principal Applied AI Engineer
Qualified Health PBC14 hours ago
Base Salary
$230k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define multi-year technical strategy and architecture for agentic workflow infrastructure supporting the company’s product portfolio.
- Represent applied AI engineering in leadership and cross-functional decisions about product direction, build-versus-buy choices, and platform investment.
- Set organization-wide standards for LLM evaluation, deployment, safety, and monitoring.
- Act as a technical escalation point for difficult, ambiguous problems across product lines.
- Mentor Staff-level engineers and help shape technical career ladders for applied AI roles.
- Evaluate emerging models, frameworks, and techniques and determine which should be adopted.
- Partner with founders and engineering leadership to align AI infrastructure investment with company strategy.
Requirements
- Deep software engineering foundation with Python required and a record of architecting company-wide systems.
- At least 8 years of production software development experience, including at least 4 years building and scaling AI-powered or LLM-driven applications in production.
- Experience setting technical direction and standards adopted across multiple teams.
- Deep expertise in MLOps, model deployment, and workflow automation at an organizational or platform level.
- Ability to operate autonomously on ambiguous, high-stakes technical and strategic problems.
- Strong record of influencing technical decisions at the leadership level, including with non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree plus 10 years or master’s degree plus 8 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 platform-level roles is desirable.
- Experience building AI infrastructure in a regulated or high-stakes domain is desirable.
- Experience founding or scaling a technical function in a startup and mentoring Staff-level engineers is desirable.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary of $230,000–$280,000, plus equity and benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible working hours and hybrid work options.
- Inclusive, mission-driven work environment.
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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.