Principal Engineer, AI Production & Architecture

Hims & Hers; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Hims & Hers seeks a Principal Engineer to architect and productionize AI-driven healthcare experiences, owning end-to-end patient-facing services. This role demands hands-on leadership, a focus on robustness, scalability, and debuggability from day one, and the ability to balance today’s delivery with long-term architectural needs.

You will mentor senior engineers, craft scalable system patterns, and partner across research, product, and clinical stakeholders to advance a patient-centric

Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience with architectural expertise.
• Proven track record influencing technical strategy and cross-org initiatives.
• Experience standing up services at scale in production.

Responsibilities

• Own Service Architecture across the stack.
• Productionize AI-Driven Experiences.
• Ensure Reliability & Operational Excellence.
• Mentor senior technical leaders and engineers.
• Navigate ambiguity and accelerate delivery of strategic initiatives.
• Translate customer needs into scalable backend design.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Production engineering

LLM/AI integration

Mentoring & leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

AWS/GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Hims & Hers seeks a Principal Engineer to architect and productionize AI-driven healthcare experiences, owning end-to-end patient-facing services. This role demands hands-on leadership, a focus on robustness, scalability, and debuggability from day one, and the ability to balance today’s delivery with long-term architectural needs.

You will mentor senior engineers, craft scalable system patterns, and partner across research, product, and clinical stakeholders to advance a patient-centric