Senior AI Engineer (x/f/m)

Doctolib; France; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free comprehensive health insurance

Lunch vouchers (Swile card)

Relocation support

Job summary

Doctolib is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join the Customer Care Contact team in the Business Performance domain in Nantes, France. You will build AI-powered tools powering Doctolib Assistant to support doctors and medical staff with accurate, safe automation.

You will collaborate with data scientists, design evaluation pipelines, ensure privacy and security by design, and own observability, SLO/SLI dashboards, and end-to-end features across a cloud-native stack.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering with hands-on AI/ML experience.
• 2+ years of Python experience.
• Experience with the full lifecycle of an AI product from evaluation to production.
• Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Proficient in full-stack development using React/TypeScript/Kotlin.
• Product-oriented with ability to guide teammates and balance business and technical needs.
• Fluent in English in day-to-day work.

Responsibilities

• Design, ship, and operate production-grade agentic systems powering Doctolib Assistant.
• Build and improve AI agents and orchestration systems.
• Collaborate with data scientists to design evaluation pipelines and guardrails.
• Develop core agentic capabilities including memory, reasoning, tool adapters, and multi-agent coordination.
• Own performance, observability, and security with dashboards, SLO/SLI.
• Ensure privacy and security by design for medical data.
• Contribute to fullstack development when needed.

Skills

AI/ML systems

Python

Full lifecycle AI product

CI/CD

English

Tools

React

TypeScript

Kotlin

Job description

Your Impact

We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join the Customer Care Contact team in the Business Performance domain. Your mission will be to build AI-powered tools that revolutionize how healthcare professionals deliver care. You will work on Doctolib Assistant, our AI personal assistant designed to assist doctors and medical staff in their daily work—from answering complex medical questions to automating administrative tasks with accuracy, reliability, and safety. Working in the tech team at Doctolib means building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients.

What you'll build

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Design, ship, and operate production-grade agentic systems powering Doctolib Assistant, our AI personal assistant that addresses key challenges for healthcare professionals
• Build and improve AI agents and our orchestration systems
• Partner with data scientists to design and implement evaluation pipelines, security/safety guardrails, and metrics—while taking ownership of operational AI projects as data science teams focus on exploratory research
• Develop and maintain core agentic capabilities including memory, reasoning orchestration, tool adapters, and multi-agent coordination, ensuring strong observability, fallback mechanisms, and fail-safe behaviors
• Own performance, observability and security: monitoring dashboards, SLO/SLI, and security posture
• Ensure privacy and security by design, with a particular focus on medical data sensitivity
• Contribute to fullstack development when needed to deliver end-to-end features for healthcare professionals

What you'll bring

Before you read on: if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply.

You'll be a great fit if you:

• Have 4+ years of experience as a software engineer, with hands-on experience in AI/ML systems
• Have 2+ years of experience working with Python
• Have gone through the full lifecycle of an AI product, from initial evaluation and launch to iterations based on results in production
• Understand and promote best practices related to the software development life cycle such as automated testing, good use of CI/CD, and DevOps practices
• Are comfortable with fullstack development and not afraid to dive into React/TypeScript/Kotlin to ship end-to-end features
• Are product-oriented and comfortable guiding your teammates to suggest tradeoffs to balance business needs with technical constraints
• Are comfortable speaking and writing in English in your day-to-day work with the team

It would be fantastic if you:

• Have experience building multi-agent systems or agent development frameworks
• Have worked on AI products for enterprise/professional users
• Have experience in the medical domain or healthcare tech

Life at Doctolib Tech

Our solutions are built on a single, fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements. Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native. We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here. We also invest in open, applied AI research. For example, our DoctoBERT project introduces open-source medical language models trained for French clinical text, with applications in named entity recognition, classification, and retrieval. Read the DoctoBERT practical guide to learn more about how we bring deep AI research into practical healthcare applications. Want to learn more about our tech culture and environment? Visit the Doctolib Tech site.

What we offer

• Free comprehensive health insurance for you and your children
• ParentCare Program: Enjoy full salary coverage (100%) during your first month of birth leave, and 75% during the second, covered by Doctolib
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
• Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year, thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Up to 14 days of RTTA subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class
• Lunch vouchers (Swile card) worth €8.50 per working day, with €4.50 covered by Doctolib
• 50% reimbursement of your public transport subscription
• Enrollment in Doctolib's long-term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowth
• Relocation support in case of international mobility
• Access to the best AI tools for coding, development and dedicated training

Our interview process

• Recruiter Interview
• Coding Interview
• System Design Interview (with focus on AI systems architecture)
• Behavioral Interview
• At least one reference check

We want your experience to be clear, respectful, and transparent.

Job details

• Permanent position
• Full-time
• Location: Nantes, France
• Start date: as soon as possible

We welcome everyone

At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination.

The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all.

You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or disability.

To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g., pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process.

Your data privacy

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