Senior Staff AI Engineer, Health AI Platform & Governance

Qualified Health; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Flexible working hours

Hybrid work options

Job summary

Qualified Health is hiring a Sr. Staff AI Engineer to set the technical direction for agentic AI systems across multiple product lines. You will define shared architecture, establish engineering standards for LLM use, and influence platform investments while remaining hands-on with challenging problems.

You will mentor senior engineers, align AI governance, and evaluate frontier models to determine what to adopt at Qualified Health, enabling safe and scalable AI across healthcare products.

Qualifications

• Deep software engineering foundation with Python.
• 9+ years building production software and ML engineering.
• Experience taking ML models from experimentation to production deployment at platform level.
• Strong ML pipelines, model serving, and MLOps knowledge.
• Expertise in workflow automation for AI-driven systems.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture and roadmap for agentic workflow infrastructure across product lines.
• Partner with leadership on build-vs-buy and platform investments.
• Set engineering standards for LLM evaluation, safety, and monitoring.
• Act as technical escalation point for high-ambiguity problems crossing products.
• Mentor Staff and Senior engineers and contribute to the AI career ladder.
• Track advances in the field and decide what to adopt at QH.

Skills

Python

LLM/agentic

Production ML

MLOps

System architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Mistral

Job description

Qualified Health is hiring a Sr. Staff AI Engineer to set the technical direction for agentic AI systems across multiple product lines. You will define shared architecture, establish engineering standards for LLM use, and influence platform investments while remaining hands-on with challenging problems.

You will mentor senior engineers, align AI governance, and evaluate frontier models to determine what to adopt at Qualified Health, enabling safe and scalable AI across healthcare products.