Founding Principal Architect for Healthcare AI Platform

Kā Labs; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Ká Labs is seeking a Founding Principal Engineer to own the control plane for high-stakes healthcare AI. You’ll design contracts between runtime, platform, reasoning, and evaluation, and lead a small founding team to ship a production-grade path in healthcare decisioning.

You’ll drive architecture governance, isolation, and reproducibility while maintaining founder-level agency and clear interfaces. This role demands deep experience with durable execution, provenance, and model-mediated

Qualifications

• Hands-on ownership of architectural work with strong systems focus.
• Experience delivering production-grade platforms for critical domains.
• Ability to design interfaces, schemas, and contracts for durable execution.

Responsibilities

• Define the contract map binding execution, rules, and evaluation.
• Ship a reference implementation and production-grade path.
• Set authority boundaries and ensure safe evolution of interfaces.
• Lead founding runtime/platform/reasoning builders and set cadence.

Skills

Distributed systems

System architecture

C++/Rust/Go

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Rust

Go

C++

Job description

Ká Labs is seeking a Founding Principal Engineer to own the control plane for high-stakes healthcare AI. You’ll design contracts between runtime, platform, reasoning, and evaluation, and lead a small founding team to ship a production-grade path in healthcare decisioning.

You’ll drive architecture governance, isolation, and reproducibility while maintaining founder-level agency and clear interfaces. This role demands deep experience with durable execution, provenance, and model-mediated