Founding AI Evidence Engineer

About the RoleJoin an early-stage healthtech company building the evidence infrastructure layer for safety-critical AI. The core problem: regulated AI vendors spend significant time and money assembling proof that their models are safe and effective — for regulators, buyers, and payers — and repeat the process with every major model update. This company is making evidence generation continuous instead of reactive, starting with diagnostic medical imaging.As a founding engineer, you'll work directly with customers preparing FDA submissions, running investigations on their models and data, and turning that work into reusable methodologies that become the product itself. It's a rare role where deep technical skill and pragmatism translate into outsized real-world impact.What You'll DoPartner with medical imaging companies preparing FDA 510(k) or De Novo submissions, and with hospitals evaluating imaging AI models.Translate vague customer questions into concrete investigations, executed in one- to two-week cycles, surfacing failure modes, edge cases, and distribution drift.Produce evidence that feeds development decisions, regulatory go/no-go calls, and hospital governance conversations.Codify recurring workflows into reusable methodologies, pipelines, and evaluation frameworks that evolve into core product capabilities.Help shape how engagements are run as the team scales — cadences, quality standards, and early hiring.What We're Looking ForEmpirical ML depth: You've designed investigations, analyzed failure cases, and reasoned about distribution shift and uncertainty in real deployed systems.Infrastructure mindset: You've turned one-off analysis work into reusable pipelines, internal tools, or evaluation frameworks.Python fluency: Comfortable working end-to-end from raw data to defensible, well-documented conclusions.Background from companies like medical imaging AI vendors, clinical AI evaluation teams, or rigorous applied ML environments is a strong signal.Visa sponsorship is available.Compensation & BenefitsSalary: $150,000 – $230,000 USD annuallyEarly-stage equity opportunity as a founding team memberLocationOn-site in the San Francisco Bay Area (Sunnyvale, CA). Candidates based in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area are preferred. #J-18808-Ljbffr Torrey Holistics