Rula

Staff Forward Depolyed Engineer - Applied AI (Remote)

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Base Salary

$192k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Learn operational workflows through observation, interviews, and data before designing software solutions.
  • Ship production-quality AI tools used weekly by business or clinical teams.
  • Own software outcomes end to end and support tools with usage telemetry.
  • Use coding agents to specify, test, and review implementation output with rigorous test sets and evaluations.
  • Apply privacy-by-design practices, including synthetic or masked data and separation of clinical content from operational tools.
  • Build reusable software building blocks from successful team implementations.
  • Coach non-engineering team members to adopt and operate software workflows independently.
  • Develop measurement frameworks for cost, usage, and impact when needed.
  • Integrate AI with complex business platforms and imperfect data or APIs.
  • Migrate systems across LLM models to optimize cost while maintaining quality guardrails.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience shipping production-quality consumer or business software systems.
  • End-to-end ownership of software outcomes.
  • Demonstrated experience shipping tools or products used weekly by customers or business teams, supported by usage telemetry.
  • Deep experience discovering customer or operational needs through observation, interviews, or data.
  • Daily experience using coding agents and applying rigorous evaluation practices.
  • Experience with privacy-by-design standards, including synthetic or masked data and isolation of clinical content from operational tools.
  • Preferred: experience building custom measurement frameworks for cost, usage, and impact.
  • Preferred: prior forward-deployed work with non-engineering business teams or external customer organizations.
  • Preferred: practical experience optimizing costs across different LLM models while maintaining quality guardrails.
  • Preferred: experience integrating AI with complex business platforms such as CRM, billing, or scheduling systems.
  • Preferred: experience coaching non-engineering team members to build or adopt software workflows independently.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work within the United States, excluding Hawaii.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and FSA/HSA benefits.
  • 401(k) plan access.
  • Generous time-off policies, including two company-wide shutdown weeks per year for most employees.
  • Paid parental leave for birthing, non-birthing, adopting, and fostering parents.
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Quarterly department stipend for team-building activities or in-person gatherings.
  • Community and employee resource groups.
  • New-hire home-office stipend plus a $50 monthly internet or cell-phone stipend.
  • Year-round wellness initiatives plus a $50 monthly wellness stipend.

Categories

Forward Deployed
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About Rula

501-1,000 employees

We believe that when access to quality mental healthcare improves, patients, providers, and payers all benefit. And that’s why we’re on a mission to make mental healthcare work for everyone. We remove barriers and strengthen connection points between patients, providers, and payers to improve mental health outcomes. With Rula, it’s easy for patients to find a high-quality therapist or psychiatric practitioner who meets their unique needs, accepts insurance, and is taking new patients. For providers, Rula offers the flexibility of private practice, while also filling caseloads and offering the necessary behind-the-scenes support. Rula handles the marketing, credentialing, billing, and admin tasks so providers can focus on what they do best: providing care to those in need. Rula is a remote-first company with teams who specialize in the areas of Clinical, Partnerships, Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Product, and more. We’re committed to reimagining how mental health is treated.

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