Mid Backend AI Engineer — Healthcare Data & AI

Harrison Clarke; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Harrison Clarke is seeking a mid-level Backend / AI Engineer to join the engineering team in Palo Alto. You’ll own core systems powering the company’s AI platform, building production services and AI-powered workflows for healthcare data and clinical processes.

This hands-on role moves between backend engineering, data, and applied AI. You’ll collaborate with senior engineers, product, and domain experts to design scalable solutions, emphasize reliability, and ship production-ready systems in a

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend fundamentals and production systems experience.
• Experience with Python and API frameworks (FastAPI, Django, Flask) and AI/LLM integration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and APIs.
• Develop AI-powered workflows using modern LLM technologies.
• Build data pipelines and infrastructure for AI applications.
• Work with LLMs, vector databases, embeddings, agents, and evaluation frameworks.
• Own projects end-to-end from design to deployment.
• Improve reliability, observability, performance, and scalability.
• Collaborate with product and domain experts on healthcare workflows.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and engineering practices.
• Prototype new ideas rapidly while maintaining production quality.
• Integrate AI systems with external and enterprise datasets.

Skills

Python

API development

Distributed systems

LLM integration

Quality & testing

Tools

FastAPI

Django

Flask

Go

Java

LangChain

LangGraph

OpenAI

Anthropic

Job description

Harrison Clarke is seeking a mid-level Backend / AI Engineer to join the engineering team in Palo Alto. You’ll own core systems powering the company’s AI platform, building production services and AI-powered workflows for healthcare data and clinical processes.

This hands-on role moves between backend engineering, data, and applied AI. You’ll collaborate with senior engineers, product, and domain experts to design scalable solutions, emphasize reliability, and ship production-ready systems in a