Senior AI Engineer – Healthtech & Product Safety

Biorce; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

MacBook provided

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Hybrid work model

Company events

Pet-friendly office

Job summary

Biorce is hiring a Senior AI Engineer in Austin to lead the AI Open Source function. You will operate in the AI layer full-time—focus on prompts, agents, retrieval, evaluation, and model behavior within product squads.

You will design and ship AI-specific features, build evaluation frameworks, and mentor junior engineers while partnering with product and design to deliver AI-driven clinical trial solutions. This is a fast-paced biotech AI startup role.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science with ML focus.
• 5+ years direct AI/ML systems experience.
• Experience with LLM APIs, prompts, agents, and retrieval.
• Experience with evaluation pipelines and prompt optimization.
• Strong grounding in ML fundamentals (model behavior, training vs inference).
• Experience integrating LLM APIs and considering latency and cost.
• Shipping AI-powered, user-facing features end-to-end.
• Designing guardrails and safety checks for AI systems.
• Mentoring or leading other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and ship AI-specific product features (prompts, agents, retrieval).
• Build and refine tool-calling and multi-step agent workflows.
• Design and maintain evaluation frameworks and datasets for AI systems.
• Create pipelines for prompt and context optimization.
• Monitor model quality, latency, and cost in production; diagnose regressions.
• Integrate platform and model capabilities into end-to-end experiences.
• Implement guardrails, safety checks, and fallback behavior.
• Debug complex model/agent behavior and traces.
• Evaluate retrieval-augmented generation and fine-tuning techniques.
• Collaborate with product/design to translate needs into AI solutions.
• Provide fast feedback to AI Scientist teams and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

AI engineering

Machine Learning

LLM APIs

Prompt engineering

Evaluation frameworks

Mentoring

Guardrails design

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Prompt tooling

Agent frameworks

Job description

Biorce is hiring a Senior AI Engineer in Austin to lead the AI Open Source function. You will operate in the AI layer full-time—focus on prompts, agents, retrieval, evaluation, and model behavior within product squads.

You will design and ship AI-specific features, build evaluation frameworks, and mentor junior engineers while partnering with product and design to deliver AI-driven clinical trial solutions. This is a fast-paced biotech AI startup role.