Principal AI Engineer

Transform healthcare with us.

At Qualified Health were redefining whats possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Our infrastructure provides the guardrails for safe AI governance healthcare-specific agent creation and real-time algorithm monitoringworking alongside leading health systems to drive real change.

This is more than just a job. Its an opportunity to build the future of AI in healthcare solve complex challenges and make a lasting impact on patient care. If youre ambitious innovative and ready to move fast wed love to have you on board.

Join us in shaping the future of healthcare.

Job Summary:

Were hiring a Principal Applied AI Engineer to set the technical vision for how Qualified Health builds agentic AI systems across the entire product portfolio. This is a company-level technical leadership role: youll shape multi-year infrastructure strategy represent engineering in decisions about AI direction at the leadership table and set the bar for what production-grade agentic AI in healthcare means at QH. Youll still write code and dive into hard technical problems directly but your primary impact will be through the systems standards and people you influence across teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for agentic workflow infrastructure supporting the full QH product portfolio (100 workflows and growing).

• Represent applied AI engineering in cross-functional and leadership-level decisions on product direction build-vs-buy and platform investment.

• Set org-wide engineering standards for LLM evaluation deployment safety and monitoring informing QHs broader AI governance approach.

• Act as a technical escalation point for the hardest highest-ambiguity problems across product lines.

• Mentor and develop Staff-level engineers; help shape the technical career ladder for applied AI roles.

• Stay ahead of the frontier evaluate emerging models frameworks and techniques (OpenAI Anthropic Mistral etc.) and determine whats worth adopting at QH.

• Partner with founders and engineering leadership on how AI infrastructure investment ties to company strategy.

Required Qualifications:

• Deep software engineering foundation (Python required) with a track record of architecting systems used company-wide.

• 8 years building production software including 4 years building and scaling AI-powered/LLM-driven applications in production.

• Proven experience setting technical direction and standards adopted across multiple teams not just a single product line.

• Deep expertise in MLOps model deployment and workflow automation at an organizational/platform level.

• Demonstrated ability to operate with full autonomy on ambiguous high-stakes technical and strategic problems.

• Strong track record influencing technical decisions at the leadership level including with non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Skills:

• Bachelors degree 10 years OR Masters degree 8 years in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Recognized expertise (internally or externally talks publications open source prior platform-level roles) in applied AI/agentic systems.

• Experience building AI infrastructure in a regulated or high-stakes domain (healthcare finance etc.).

• History of founding or scaling a technical function from the ground up in a startup environment.

• Experience mentoring Staff-level engineers and shaping technical career ladders.

Why Join Qualified Health

This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing company and a world-class team that is poised to change the healthcare industry. We are a passionate mission-driven team that is building a category-defining product. We are backed by premier investors and are looking for founding team members who are excited to do the best work of their careers.

Our employees are integral to achieving our goals so we are proud to offer competitive salaries with equity packages robust medical/dental/vision insurance flexible working hours hybrid work options and an inclusive environment that fosters creativity and innovation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Qualified Health is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential to our success and we are committed to building a team that reflects the world we live in. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression age national origin marital status disability or veteran status.

Pay & Benefits: The pay range for this role is between $230000 and $315000 depending on skills qualifications experience and location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits.

Join our mission to revolutionize healthcare with AI. To apply please send your resume through the application below.

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