Healthcare AI Agent Engineer – Trusted, Explainable

Hipp Health; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hipp Health in the United States seeks an AI Agent Engineer to build systems for accurate, compliant documentation review and policy-aware automation. You will design agents that identify gaps, ground decisions in approved guidance, and provide auditable outputs for high-stakes healthcare workflows.

Collaborate with compliance, clinical, and product teams to define requirements, implement retrieval-grounded architectures, and ensure reliability, safety, and explainability across agent tooling.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building AI agents or substantial LLM-powered products.
• Strong software engineering skills for secure, maintainable production systems.
• Experience with tool-using agents, retrieval, or structured outputs.
• Ability to ground AI systems in authoritative source material and data.
• Solid understanding of reliability, traceability, and observability in agents.
• Distinguish probabilistic model behavior from deterministic decisions.
• Experience integrating APIs, databases, document systems or internal services.
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript or similar language.
• Strong analytical judgment and meticulous attention to detail.
• Clear written communication, especially around technical behavior.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship AI agents for documentation review and policy checks.
• Convert complex requirements into testable agent workflows and rules.
• Build retrieval systems grounded in contracts, payer rules, and internal guidance.
• Develop structured review workflows to surface gaps and actions.
• Create citations, evidence trails, and audit logs for outputs.
• Design human-review and approval mechanisms for high-risk decisions.
• Build evaluations for grounding, policy adherence, and safe escalation.
• Collaborate with compliance, clinical, billing, product, and engineering.
• Monitor agent behavior and investigate failures or regressions.
• Implement versioning and change management for policies and prompts.
• Apply privacy-by-design and least-privilege data access.
• Contribute reusable agent infrastructure and standards across Hipp.

Skills

AI agent development

Production software

Tool-using agents

Retrieval workflows

APIs integration

Python

TypeScript

Observability

Analytical thinking

Clear communication

Job description

Hipp Health in the United States seeks an AI Agent Engineer to build systems for accurate, compliant documentation review and policy-aware automation. You will design agents that identify gaps, ground decisions in approved guidance, and provide auditable outputs for high-stakes healthcare workflows.

Collaborate with compliance, clinical, and product teams to define requirements, implement retrieval-grounded architectures, and ensure reliability, safety, and explainability across agent tooling.