Senior Staff AI Engineer — Healthcare AI Platform Leader

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

Flexible PTO

401(k) + Company Match

Job summary

OpenLoop is hiring a Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer to be a foundational technical leader for AI. You will shape how agents run, prove they are good, keep them safe, and enable teams to build on our platform across healthcare workloads.

As one of the earliest AI hires, you will set direction, establish build-vs-buy decisions, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product, operations, clinical stakeholders, and data teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with tech lead or principal scope.
• 2+ years building and running production LLM-based systems.
• Deep hands-on expertise across agent runtime, evaluation, and AI stack.
• Experience measuring AI quality with evaluation sets and metrics.
• Experience leading a small team’s technical direction in greenfield settings.
• Strong ability to explain AI trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for agent runtime, tool calls, context handling, and sandboxes.
• Build systems to prove AI quality, including tests and evals.
• Manage model access, multi-provider routing, version upgrades and fallbacks.
• Trace and monitor AI behavior and attribute spend with budgets.
• Connect agents to real data via retrieval, context design and prompts.
• Design workflows with operations to convert human steps into agent workflows.
• Ensure PHI protection and guard against prompt injection misuse.
• Make infrastructure decisions on GCP and collaborate with Data Platform.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers new to AI.
• Explain AI trade-offs to product, operations and clinical stakeholders.

Skills

Software leadership

Production LLM experience

AI engineering depth

Zero-to-One leadership

Effective communicator

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

GCP

Job description

OpenLoop is hiring a Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer to be a foundational technical leader for AI. You will shape how agents run, prove they are good, keep them safe, and enable teams to build on our platform across healthcare workloads.

As one of the earliest AI hires, you will set direction, establish build-vs-buy decisions, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product, operations, clinical stakeholders, and data teams.