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Founding AI Agent Engineer

Full-time

George Bernard Consulting

Responsibilities

  • Design and launch a group of AI agents that work together to recruit and support patients across many active clinical trials.
  • Own the full improvement cycle for the agents: review live conversations turn failures into automated tests and keep tuning how the agents run.
  • Connect health-profile data so agents reach patients at the right moment and quickly line up large numbers of pre-screened candidates when a trial opens.
  • Extend the agents across voice text messages and email while keeping conversations consistent personal and empathetic.
  • Bring in new agent frameworks memory approaches and tools to strengthen the core product.
  • Make sure the agents are reliable and safe in a heavily regulated healthcare setting.

Requirements

  • 04 years in software engineering agent engineering or applied AI.
  • Has launched conversational AI agents to real consumers at scale not just internal tools or side projects.
  • Strong working knowledge of LLM testing live-system tracing prompt chaining and agent control loops.
  • Able to work on-site 6 days a week in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Open to candidates on US work visas (OPT H1B transfers).

Skills Required

  • Conversational AI & multi-agent systems
  • LLMs prompt engineering & evals
  • Agent tracing & observability
  • LangGraph Vercel AI SDK
  • Voice AI & SMS/email integrations
  • CRM / clinical trial system integrations
  • AI safety guardrails
Vacancy posted 4 days ago
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