Senior AI Systems Engineer (Hybrid, Equity Included)

Qualified Health; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical Insurance

Hybrid work

Inclusive environment

Job summary

Qualified Health, based in Palo Alto, is hiring a Staff AI Engineer to lead the architectural design of agentic AI systems across the platform. You will own the architecture and quality bar, work with multiple teams to drive adoption, and still spend most of your time coding and solving hard technical problems.

The role requires 7+ years in production software/ML, deep ML fundamentals, and experience taking models from development to production with MLOps expertise.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering foundation (Python required) with experience architecting systems used by multiple teams.
• 7+ years building production software and ML engineering, including 2+ years of hands-on production LLM or agentic work.
• Strong foundation in machine learning fundamentals, with hands-on experience developing, training, fine-tuning, and evaluating ML models.
• Proven experience taking machine learning models from experimentation and development through production deployment, scaling, monitoring, and ongoing optimization.
• Experience with workflow automation for AI-driven systems.
• Experience setting technical direction for a team or product area and getting others to adopt it.
• Ability to work independently on ambiguous, high-stakes problems.
• Ability to influence technical decisions with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and roadmap for agentic workflow infrastructure in your product area.
• Partner with product and engineering leads on technical tradeoffs, build-vs-buy, and sequencing.
• Define and apply standards for LLM evaluation, deployment, safety, and monitoring within your area, and contribute to org-wide standards.
• Act as a technical escalation point for hard, ambiguous problems on your teams.
• Mentor Senior engineers and raise the technical bar through design and code review.
• Evaluate emerging models, frameworks, and techniques and recommend what to adopt.

Skills

Python

ML Systems

Production Deployment

ML Pipelines

LLM/Agentic

Workflow Automation

Technical Leadership

Independent Work

Stakeholder Influence

Education

Bachelor's degree + 9 years

Master's degree + 7 years

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Mistral

Job description

Qualified Health, based in Palo Alto, is hiring a Staff AI Engineer to lead the architectural design of agentic AI systems across the platform. You will own the architecture and quality bar, work with multiple teams to drive adoption, and still spend most of your time coding and solving hard technical problems.

The role requires 7+ years in production software/ML, deep ML fundamentals, and experience taking models from development to production with MLOps expertise.