Senior AI Engineer: Healthcare LLM Production & Safety

vibehackers; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid office model

Job summary

vibehackers seeks a Senior Software Engineer (AI) to design, build, and operate LLM-powered features for healthcare workflows. You will lead end-to-end AI initiatives, including prompting, retrieval, agents, evaluation, and production operations in a hybrid Palo Alto / San Francisco environment.

You will collaborate with clinical, product, and safety teams to ensure safety and measurable outcomes, while mentoring others and staying current with AI tooling such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering with production LLM/ML features.
• Strong Python coding and full-stack familiarity where needed.
• Hands-on with AI system design (retrieval, orchestration, evaluation).
• Proficient in explaining model behavior to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship end-to-end LLM-powered features for healthcare workflows.
• Develop evaluation harnesses and feedback loops for safe deployments.
• Integrate AI capabilities into clinician, patient, and operational workflows.
• Collaborate with clinical, product, and safety stakeholders to define success.
• Contribute to AI engineering practices and tooling.
• Stay updated on research and operationalize relevant advances.

Skills

Python

LLM/ML features

System design

Prompt design

Evaluation & safety

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

Job description

vibehackers seeks a Senior Software Engineer (AI) to design, build, and operate LLM-powered features for healthcare workflows. You will lead end-to-end AI initiatives, including prompting, retrieval, agents, evaluation, and production operations in a hybrid Palo Alto / San Francisco environment.

You will collaborate with clinical, product, and safety teams to ensure safety and measurable outcomes, while mentoring others and staying current with AI tooling such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot.