Founding Engineer (Data/AI)

Summary

Join a fast-growing, venture-backed healthtech company as a highly versatile engineer. You will work at the intersection of AI, data engineering, and software development, advancing AI systems, scaling data workflows, and ensuring exceptional platform performance for enterprise clients. The role offers opportunities to shape the future of AI-driven analytics in healthcare and work directly with the founding team. This is an early-hire position with a pathway to equity and potential H-1B visa sponsorship. The work environment is flexible and remote-first.

Requirements

• Exceptional Python skills
• Experience with AI frameworks
• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with ORM tools (e.g., SQLAlchemy)
• Experience building applications with LLMs
• Solid understanding of relational databases & cloud data warehouses
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to design scalable technical solutions
• Comfort working in early-stage environments (able to work independently)

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize AI-driven data pipelines
• Enhance agentic system architecture and monitoring
• Integrate new data sources and deploy new AI agent capabilities
• Conduct technical analysis to improve performance and scalability

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in life sciences, healthcare analytics, biomedical research, or enterprise AI software
• DevOps skills (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure)
• Experience with distributed systems

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Pathway to equity if transitioning to a full-time, in-person role in the US
• Performance-based H-1B visa sponsorship opportunity
• Flexible, remote-first work environment