Staff Software Engineer, AI Engineer

Location: Hybrid- San Francisco OR Palo Alto Office Tuesday/Thursday

About Midi Health

Midi Health is the largest virtual care clinic for women in midlife navigating perimenopause menopause and other hormonal transitions. We combine expert clinicians evidence-based protocols and a modern technology platform to deliver care that has historically been underserved by the healthcare system. Were a fast-growing mission-driven company building the infrastructure and products that define this new category of care.

How We Work

• Hybrid by design. Two days a week in-office (Tuesday and Thursday) in Palo Alto or San Francisco. We believe high-trust teams are built in person and scaled remotely.
• AI-native engineering. We expect every engineer to be fluent with modern AI coding tools (Claude Code Cursor Copilot and similar) and to actively push the frontier of how we build software.
• Low-ego high-curiosity. We approach disagreement with humility and technical rigor not politics. We invest in each others growth.
• Outcome-oriented. We move fast own our work end-to-end and balance speed with the durability that healthcare demands.

The Difference You Will Make

Youll set the direction for how Midi builds with AI across clinical workflows patient experience and operational intelligence. Youll own the architecture of our AI systems the evaluation practices that keep them safe and the standards that let every engineer at Midi ship AI features confidently. This is the role for someone who wants to define what AI engineering looks like in a modern healthcare company.

What You Will Do

• Lead technical strategy for AI/LLM systems across Midis product surfaces
• Architect retrieval orchestration agentic and evaluation systems that run reliably in production
• Set the standards for AI safety evaluation observability and responsible rollout in a healthcare context
• Partner with clinical product and executive leadership to shape the AI roadmap
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers into strong AI engineers; raise the AI literacy of the whole org
• Lead the frontier: evaluate new models techniques and tools and bring the right ones into the team

About You

• 10 years of software engineering experience with deep recent time leading production AI/LLM systems
• Seasoned hands-on coder; still writes production Python regularly
• Seasoned system designer for AI systems at scale retrieval agents evaluation latency and cost
• Authority in AI engineering: teams and leaders defer to your judgment and you can defend it rigorously
• Leader at the AI frontier: you set how the team uses AI tooling and how we build AI products
• Seasoned mentor; youve grown engineers into strong AI builders
• Strong communicator with product clinical and executive stakeholders; thoughtful about risk and safety tradeoffs
• Low-ego curious humble

Nice to Have

• Healthcare clinical NLP or regulated AI deployment experience
• Track record of shipping agentic or large-scale RAG systems in production

Interview Process

• Recruiter Screen (30 min)
• Hiring Manager Screen (45 min)
• Live Technical Assessment (3 sessions: 150 min)
• On-Site Interview and Lunch (4 sessions: 150 min)

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At Midi Health we are committed to pay transparency and equity. The estimated salary range for this role is $210000-$260000 per year based on factors such as experience and addition to base salary employees are eligible for a wide range of benefits and equity in the company

We believe in fair and competitive compensation practices that align with our values of equity and inclusion. If you have any questions about how we determine pay were happy to discuss further in the hiring process.

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