Founding AI Engineer, Applied Research - Equity & Bay Area

Digital Waffle; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Digital Waffle in the Bay Area is hiring a Founding Engineer, Applied Research to ship research-driven healthcare AI. You’ll help shape core intelligence from day one, working on charts, claims, denials and payer policies with a seed-stage startup mindset.

You’ll build evals and productionize research, collaborating with a small, focused team to move quickly and deliver real-world impact in healthcare technology.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in ML research, evals, language models or applied AI systems using Python.
• Hands-on experience with fine-tuning, evals, agentic systems or computer-use models.
• Able to take ambiguous problems, scope them and deliver measurable real-world impact.

Responsibilities

• Build clinical evals to measure and improve model performance across chart understanding, claims review, authorization logic and denial analysis.
• Improve core model intelligence through prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval and structured reasoning on real clinical and financial data.
• Turn feedback from live provider and payer workflows into bounded research problems, then ship solutions to production.
• Partner with backend and forward-deployed engineers to productionize research at high velocity.

Skills

ML research

Python

Evals & fine-tuning

Applied AI systems

Job description

Digital Waffle in the Bay Area is hiring a Founding Engineer, Applied Research to ship research-driven healthcare AI. You’ll help shape core intelligence from day one, working on charts, claims, denials and payer policies with a seed-stage startup mindset.

You’ll build evals and productionize research, collaborating with a small, focused team to move quickly and deliver real-world impact in healthcare technology.