Senior Clinical AI Engineer

Insight Timer; Sydney; Remote; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote (Australia-based)

Extra leave for wellbeing

L&D budget

Biennial global retreat

Job summary

Insight Timer, the world’s largest meditation and wellness community, seeks a Senior Clinical AI Engineer in Australia. You will build production-grade AI agents with clinical judgment, integrate with backend systems, and drive safe, evidence-informed wellbeing experiences at global scale.

You’ll combine software engineering with psychology/medical insight, shaping how AI reasons, what it recommends, and how we measure safety and quality across services used by millions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering with AI agents, LLMs, or AI-powered workflows.
• Strong Python and backend systems experience.
• Hands-on with agent frameworks, orchestration, evaluation, and prompts.
• Background in psychology, medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, digital health, or wellbeing science.
• Good judgment on safety, evidence quality, risk, and real-world applicability.
• Ability to translate clinical concepts into product requirements and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship production-grade AI agents for wellbeing domains.
• Create agentic workflows with clinical reasoning and reliability.
• Integrate AI agents with backend APIs and data systems.
• Build evaluation, testing, and monitoring for safety and quality.
• Define clinical evaluation rubrics for outputs and risk.
• Collaborate with Head of AI, clinical researchers, product, and engineers.
• Identify risks in AI outputs and ensure safe guidance for users.
• Improve prompts, tools, and retrieval systems; enable modular workflows.
• Define when agents should answer, request context, escalate, or refuse.
• Develop data/feedback pipelines to improve performance with real usage.

Skills

Python

AI agents

LLM systems

Backend APIs

Prompt engineering

Evaluation pipelines

Retrieval systems

Cross-domain collaboration

Education

Formal training in psychology/medicine/neuroscience

Tools

Agent frameworks

Orchestration tools

Data pipelines

LLM architecture

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior Clinical AI Engineer to help build the next generation of intelligent wellbeing experiences for Insight Timer, the world’s largest meditation and wellness community, with over 30 million users.

This is a rare hybrid role for someone who can both build production-grade AI systems and bring real clinical, psychological, medical, or mental health research judgment to the work. You’ll work directly with our Head of AI, backend engineers, product team, and clinical research collaborators to design and ship AI-powered experiences that are technically robust, clinically thoughtful, evidence-informed, and useful for real people.

This is not a pure research, data science, or advisory role. You will be hands‑on building agentic AI workflows, integrating with backend systems, designing evaluation and monitoring infrastructure, and helping turn prototypes into reliable product experiences. But unlike a standard AI engineering role, you will also help shape the clinical and wellbeing logic behind those systems: how they reason, what they recommend, what they avoid, when they escalated, and how we evaluate quality and safety.

We’re looking for someone who is comfortable moving between code, product, clinical reasoning, and research evidence. You might have a background in software engineering plus psychology, medicine, psychiatry, behavioral science, neuroscience, digital health, mental health research, meditation, mindfulness, or wellbeing science. Or you may be a technically strong clinician or researcher who has built real AI products and workflows.

If you’re motivated by the challenge of building safe, reliable, high-impact AI systems for meditation, mental health, and wellbeing at global scale, we’d love to meet you.

About Insight Timer

Imagine a platform which could amplify something as simple as your attendance into deep transformational shifts for humanity. A place where showing up was enough. Where each individual visit combined with millions more to trigger huge waves of health and happiness around the world. What would such a platform look like? Could you even build it? And more importantly, how would you protect it from becoming another Instagram, TikTok or Twitter which magnify the very worst of us.

If we can answer these questions, we believe Insight Timer’s community will emerge as one of the most important companies of the 21st century. A place, not a product, which is capable of reversing the modern day health pandemic by harmonising the human spirit before problems arise. And if we get there, well, the opportunities are endless. Imagine a modern-day renaissance where health, belonging and purpose become the new definitions of happiness for hundreds of millions of people around the world, including you.

And all you need to do is show up.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship production-grade AI agents for meditation, wellbeing, mental health, sleep, anxiety, stress, and behavior change.
• Build agentic workflows that combine technical reliability with clinical and evidence-informed reasoning.
• Integrate AI agents with backend APIs, data systems, content systems, and product surfaces.
• Build evaluation, testing, and monitoring systems for reliability, safety, quality, and continual improvement.
• Design clinical and wellbeing evaluation rubrics for AI outputs, including clarity, usefulness, safety, evidence alignment, and risk.
• Work with the Head of AI, clinical research team, product, and engineers to translate clinical and research requirements into product and system design.
• Identify risks in AI-generated wellbeing outputs, including unsupported claims, unsafe recommendations, overstatement, inappropriate advice, and poor handling of vulnerable users.
• Improve prompts, tools, agent workflows, and retrieval systems based on both engineering performance and clinical/product quality.
• Architect flexible, modular workflows that make it easy to test, extend, and improve AI capabilities.
• Help define when agentic systems should answer, ask for more context, escalation, refuse, or redirect.
• Design data and feedback pipelines that improve agent performance through real-world usage, evaluation, and, where appropriate, fine-tuning.
• Translate early AI prototypes into scalable, maintainable product systems used by millions of people.
• Help shape Insight Timer’s internal standards for building safe, evidence-informed AI wellbeing products.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including production experience with AI agents, LLM-based systems, or AI-powered workflows.
• Strong Python fundamentals and experience building reliable backend systems, APIs, or distributed workflows.
• Hands‑on experience with agent frameworks, orchestration tools, evaluation pipelines, prompt engineering, retrieval systems, or LLM application architecture.
• Formal training, research experience, or applied expertise in psychology, medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, behavioral science, digital health, mental health, meditation, mindfulness, or wellbeing science.
• Strong judgment around clinical or wellbeing claims, evidence quality, risk, user vulnerability, and real‑world applicability.
• Comfortable evaluating AI outputs not only for technical correctness, but also for safety, clarity, appropriateness, and evidence alignment.
• Able to translate clinical, psychological or research concepts into product requirements, prompts, workflows, and engineering decisions.
• Comfortable working across engineering, product, research, and clinical domains.
• Pragmatic and product‑minded. You know when to move quickly, when to slow down, and when quality or safety needs to come first.
• Motivated by building systems that help millions of people live healthier, calmer, and more meaningful lives.

Benefits

• We offer competitive salaries and options.
• The role is fully remote, but you must be based in Australia.
• Extra leave days are available for your well‑being and birthday.
• A generous L&D budget and wellbeing bonus.
• We host a global company retreat every other year.