Staff Backend AI Engineer
Staff Backend AI Engineer
Full-Time
Location: Remote, NYC, or South Florida
We're partnering with a well-funded healthcare technology company backed by a prominent family office and experienced operators building AI-native infrastructure for healthcare. The team is focused on solving complex operational and workflow challenges through production-grade AI systems deployed at scale.
What You'll Do
- Design and build backend systems powering AI-driven workflows and automation.
- Develop scalable, reliable services supporting inference pipelines, orchestration, and high-volume data processing.
- Drive architecture across distributed systems, APIs, and platform infrastructure.
- Partner with product, data, and domain experts to bring complex systems from concept to production.
- Mentor engineers and help raise the overall technical bar.
Ideal Background
- 8+ years of full-time experience building and operating production backend systems.
- Degree in comuter science or an adjacent field
- Strong Python expertise with deep distributed systems experience.
- Experience deploying AI-powered products into production environments. \
- Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Excellent communication skills
- Particularly interested in candidates from Big Tech, healthcare technology, digital health, healthcare infrastructure, or top-tier consulting organizations with meaningful healthcare domain exposure.
- Experience working in fast-moving, high-growth environments is a plus.
Compensation
- Base salary: $180,000 - $250,000
- 20% bonus
- Meaningful equity participation
- Comprehensive benefits package
If you have experience building large-scale backend systems and want to apply AI to real-world healthcare problems, apply now!
*No contracors*
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