Founding Engineer (Open to Remote)

Title of Role: Founding Engineer (AI / Product Engineering)
Location: San Francisco CA (Remote-flexible with regular SF presence)
Company Stage of Funding: Seed ($5M raised)
Office Type: On-site (5 days/week preferred remote-flexible)
Salary: $170000 $250000 Equity (0.5% 1.5%)

Company Description

Our client is an early-stage AI healthcare startup building automation systems to streamline complex insurance and revenue cycle workflows. Their platform leverages multimodal AI agentsspanning browser automation voice AI APIs and messagingto replace manual processes like benefits verification prior authorization and patient communications.

Despite being early the company has already secured major enterprise customers including one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S. and is experiencing strong demand with a growing customer pipeline.

Founded by experienced operators from top technology and healthcare organizations the team is focused on building a category-defining platform at the intersection of AI and healthcare operations.

What You Will Do

• Build and ship multimodal AI agents across browser voice text and API interfaces
• Own product features end-to-end from concept to deployment with real customers
• Work directly with healthcare operators to understand workflows and deliver impactful solutions
• Design evaluation systems to measure and improve AI agent performance
• Contribute to core platform infrastructure (context orchestration memory and tooling)
• Identify patterns across customers to shape product and platform strategy
• Rapidly prototype and iterate using the latest AI technologies
• Scale systems to handle increasing customer demand and complexity
• Collaborate closely with founders and play a key role in shaping engineering culture

Ideal Candidate Background

• 15 years of experience as a full-stack or product engineer
• Strong coding skills in Python TypeScript or Go
• Experience building and shipping user-facing products end-to-end
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure)
• Strong product mindset with focus on real-world user impact
• Experience working in fast-paced or startup environments
• High ownership speed and willingness to take on ambiguous problems
• Demonstrated career growth or strong trajectory

Preferred

• Experience with LLMs AI agents or voice AI systems
• Background in healthcare fintech or complex workflow automation
• Experience building customer-facing products with measurable impact
• Strong academic background from top technical programs
• Prior startup or founding engineer experience
• Exposure to APIs integrations or distributed systems

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive base salary: $170000 $250000
• Meaningful equity: 0.5% 1.5%
• Remote flexibility with strong in-office collaboration culture
• Opportunity to be a founding engineer with high ownership
• Direct impact on product customers and company trajectory
• Fast-growing company with strong early traction
• Work on cutting-edge AI applications in healthcare

Why Join

This is a rare opportunity to join a high-growth AI startup at the earliest stage and build core products from the ground up. Youll work directly with customers ship impactful features quickly and help define the future of AI-driven healthcare automation.

If youre a product-minded engineer who wants to move fast take ownership and work on real-world AI systems with meaningful impact this role offers exceptional learning growth and upside.