Logistics Optimization Engineer for In-Home Care

Sprinter Health; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pre-IPO equity

Competitive salary

Full health coverage

Flexible PTO

401(k) match

Parental leave

HSA/FSA

Lunch provided

Learning stipend

Job summary

Sprinter Health is hiring a Software Engineer to join our Logistics Optimization team, tackling algorithmic and operational problems in healthcare. You will design systems balancing clinician supply, patient demand, and routing efficiency as the logistics backbone of in-home care.

The role is deeply technical and high-impact, working at the intersection of operations research, simulation, and distributed systems. Hybrid office model in SF.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of software engineering experience with strong backend or full-stack fundamentals
• Proficiency in JavaScript / TypeScript (preferred) and/or Python
• Experience designing or implementing optimization, forecasting, or simulation systems
• Background in operations research, applied math, or quantitative modeling
• Shipped production systems that balance technical complexity and real-world constraints
• Collaborated cross-functionally with product, ops, or data science teams to drive measurable impact

Responsibilities

• Design and implement algorithms that optimize clinician routing, scheduling, and dispatch at national scale
• Build simulations that model demand, capacity, and patient behavior under real-world constraints
• Develop predictive models for cancellations, no-shows, and overbooking optimization
• Collaborate with product and ops teams to translate complex logistics challenges into scalable software systems
• Prototype and productionize forecasting and optimization models in a distributed environment
• Own projects end-to-end—from design to implementation and iteration

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Optimization systems

Operations research

Distributed systems

Tools

TypeScript/Node.js

Python

GraphQL

AWS Amplify Stack

BigQuery

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Looker

Kibana

Job description

Sprinter Health is hiring a Software Engineer to join our Logistics Optimization team, tackling algorithmic and operational problems in healthcare. You will design systems balancing clinician supply, patient demand, and routing efficiency as the logistics backbone of in-home care.

The role is deeply technical and high-impact, working at the intersection of operations research, simulation, and distributed systems. Hybrid office model in SF.