Software Engineer, AI Agents

Austin Community College; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare generative AI company is seeking a talented engineer to join their dynamic team in Manhattan. The ideal candidate will have strong backend engineering skills, especially in developing AI agents and improving performance for high-stakes healthcare applications. This in-person role offers the chance to work closely with founders and make a significant impact on patient lives. Strong backend experience and a relevant degree are crucial for this fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Very strong backend experience, preferably in early-stage environments.
• Experience building reliable AI agents.
• Must be ready to work in-person in Manhattan, New York.

Responsibilities

• Build state-of-the-art AI agents across several modalities.
• Develop high performance AI agents for healthcare use cases.
• Architect data workflows and propose innovative ideas.
• Collaborate across engineering to ship robust features.
• Operate with ownership and drive for impact in healthcare domain.

Skills

Backend engineering

AI agents development

Clever engineering techniques

In-person in NYC

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related degree

Job description

Asha Health is building the future of self-learning for healthcare generative AI. We're backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, 186 Ventures, Reach Capital and many more. We recently raised an oversubscribed seed round from some of the best investors in Silicon Valley. Our team includes AI product leaders from companies like Google, physician executives from major health systems, and more.

About the Role

We're looking for a rockstar engineer to join our engineering team. We're looking for someone who is an all‑rounder, but has particularly exceptional backend engineering skills. Our ideal candidate has built AI agents and leveraged clever engineering techniques to improve latency & reliability for complex workflows.

This role will be in person working with the 2 founders 6 days per week, so safe to say you will get close! If you are a go‑getter and have the intensity it takes to win, this role could be for you. If this does not align with your current goals it may not be the best fit and we would recommend you do not apply.

Responsibilities

• In this role, you will have the opportunity to build state‑of‑the‑art AI agents across several modalities. You will be horizontal across our engineering team, experimenting and implementing novel AI/ML techniques to improve performance and reliability of various AI agents.
• You’ll get to wear many hats. Here is some of the fun stuff you will do:
• Develop AI agents with industry‑leading performance for high stakes use cases in healthcare.
• Architect our data annotation, fine tuning, and RLHF workflows.
• Push the bleeding‑edge in what is technically feasible!
• Act like a owner — propose ideas and call your own shots!
• Impact hundreds of thousands (hopefully millions) of patient lives!
• Win.

Requirements

• Graduated with a bachelors in computer science or related degree.
• Very strong backend experience, preferably in 0-1 or 1-10 environments.
• Worked at an early stage startup (Seed - Series C) before.
• Experience building AI agents before with a high degree for reliability (we will ask you to impress us with the clever backend engineering techniques you've used).
• Must be ready to work in person in Manhattan, New York 5 days per week in person but 6 days per week total.

Bonus:

• Built and scaled your own projects to significant revenue.
• Understanding of US healthcare/health‑tech.