Founding Engineer: AI-Driven Health Platform with Equity

People in AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding-level equity

Job summary

People in AI in New York is seeking a founding engineer to join a small, high-caliber team and take ownership of product, architecture, and technical direction. You will help build an AI-native platform that combines automation, knowledge systems, and human expertise to improve care coordination.

You'll work across full-stack development, backend systems, and production AI workflows, shaping the platform's evolution while collaborating with users to inform product decisions and establish

Qualifications

• 3+ years of strong software engineering experience or exceptional track record.
• Full-stack expertise with strong backend and systems design fundamentals.
• Experience building and owning complex products end to end.
• Strong understanding of databases, APIs, and modern cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with LLMs, AI tooling, or agentic applications.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable backend services, APIs, and data models.
• Develop polished, user-facing applications using TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
• Build AI-powered workflows, retrieval systems, and agentic capabilities.
• Design reliable systems for complex, context-rich data and operational workflows.
• Work directly with users and help shape product and technical decisions.
• Establish engineering best practices as the team scales.

Skills

Full-stack

Backend architecture

APIs

Databases

Cloud

LLMs

AI tooling

Agentic apps

Job description

People in AI in New York is seeking a founding engineer to join a small, high-caliber team and take ownership of product, architecture, and technical direction. You will help build an AI-native platform that combines automation, knowledge systems, and human expertise to improve care coordination.

You'll work across full-stack development, backend systems, and production AI workflows, shaping the platform's evolution while collaborating with users to inform product decisions and establish