Senior Staff AI Builder
Job Location:
Santa Barbara County, CA - USA
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Job Summary
- Own a multi-squad technical area (agentic patterns integration surface reliability evaluation voice and messaging migration or similar) and drive it to a measurably better place.
- Partner with Heads of Segment across squads the Primitives Squad and the Knowledge and Tools Squad to graduate shared capabilities that multiply builder output.
- Establish and execute on functional-level goals; define processes standards and best practices that other squads adopt.
- Represent Arteras engineering practice in senior customer conversations architecture reviews and partnerships with EHR and platform vendors.
- Diagnose systemic issues (quality reliability velocity or cost) and lead the cross-squad work needed to fix them at the root.
- Sponsor mentor and develop other builders; model the transition from personal output to organizational leverage.
- Set the ethical standards for how builders work with customer data patient communications and AI systems.
- Industry-leading AI-native fluency: consistently demonstrates and teaches an AI-native practice that produces the output of a traditional team (hard requirement).
- Typically 10 years of professional engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated output with multiple examples of systems you architected and ran at scale.
- Recognized expertise in at least one domain that maps directly to Arteras critical capabilities (agentic platforms EHR integrations AWS-scale reliability AI evaluation voice and messaging security engineering).
- Track record of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams that materially changed business outcomes.
- Strong commercial judgment: can frame technical choices in terms of customer impact revenue cost and risk.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication including at senior customer and executive level.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority across multiple squads and functions.
- Prior staff or senior staff-level experience at a healthcare AI-native or agentic platform company.
- Experience designing systems for multi-tenant HIPAA/HITRUST/FedRAMP-constrained environments at scale.
- Experience as a board advisor or external technical contributor in the healthcare or AI space.
- Recognized external profile: publications conference talks or open source influence.
- Experience leading incident response and post-incident organizational change.
At Artera we believe the best work happens when people are truly connected. Our AI services model has shown whats possible when small focused teams move fast together the speed of collaboration pace of career growth and quality of what we build can become stronger when teams share space. As we grow we want every new teammate to feel part of an in-person community from day one.
Thats why we are focusing our U.S. hiring in three cities where we are investing in offices and building strong local teams:
- Santa Barbara CA (Our HQ)
- Seattle WA
- Kansas City KS/MO
Unless a roles posting states otherwise new U.S. roles are based in one of these three cities and candidates should reside in (or be willing to relocate to) one of these areas. Each location follows an in-person schedule that reflects how our local teams work best; well walk you through what to expect for your specific role and city during the interview process.
Focusing on offices and hiring in a few locations rather than spreading thin across many cities lets us invest deeply in each one so every team has real community mentorship and momentum in person.
Artera is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to fair and equitable hiring practices. All hiring decisions at Artera are based on strategic business needs job requirements and individual qualifications. All candidates are considered without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability genetics protected veteran status or any other protected status.
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In compliance with federal law all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
Artera is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment; Artera will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Artera provides reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees in compliance with state and federal laws. If you need an accommodation please reach out to emailprotected.
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About Company
Streamline care, automate workflows, and improve access with a secure patient communication platform built for federal healthcare—powered by Artera Harmony.
