Staff AI Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Hybrid work options

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Qualified Health is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to lead the technical design of agentic AI systems for a major area of the platform. You will own the architecture and quality bar for workflows, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and devote significant time to coding and solving hard technical problems.

You will define standards for LLM evaluation, deployment, and monitoring while influencing decisions across engineering and product teams.

Qualifications

• Strong software foundation in Python with multi-team system experience.
• 7+ years building production software and ML engineering, 2+ years LLM/agentic work.
• Solid ML fundamentals: training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Experience taking models from experimentation to production, with MLOps.
• Experience with AI workflow automation and scalable pipelines.
• Ability to set technical direction and drive adoption across teams.
• Ability to work independently on ambiguous, high-stakes problems.
• Ability to influence decisions with engineers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and roadmap for agentic workflow infrastructure in your product area.
• Partner with product and engineering leads on tradeoffs, build-vs-buy, sequencing.
• Define and apply standards for LLM evaluation, deployment, safety, and monitoring.
• Act as a technical escalation point for hard problems on teams.
• Mentor Senior engineers and raise technical bar through design and code review.
• Evaluate emerging models/frameworks (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral) and advise adoption.

Skills

Python

Production ML

LLM/Agentic work

ML Pipelines

MLOps

Workflow automation

Technical leadership

Independent problem solving

Stakeholder influence

Education

CS/Engineering degree (Bachelor's +9 yrs or Master's +7 yrs)

Job description

Transform healthcare with us.

At Qualified Health, we're redefining what's possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Our infrastructure provides the guardrails for safe AI governance, healthcare-specific agent creation, and real-time algorithm monitoring - working alongside leading health systems to drive real change.

This is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to build the future of AI in healthcare, solve complex challenges, and make a lasting impact on patient care. If you're ambitious, innovative, and ready to move fast, we'd love to have you on board.

Join us in shaping the future of healthcare.

Job Summary:

We're hiring a Staff AI Engineer to lead the technical design of agentic AI systems for a major area of the Qualified Health platform. You'll own the architecture and quality bar for the workflows in your area, work across several teams to get them adopted, and still spend most of your time writing code and solving hard technical problems directly.

Key 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 (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, etc.) and recommend what to adopt.

Required 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. Experience may include traditional ML, deep learning, predictive modeling, NLP, or other applied ML disciplines.
• Proven experience taking machine learning models from experimentation and development through production deployment, scaling, monitoring, and ongoing optimization. Strong understanding of ML pipelines, model serving, and MLOps.
• 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.

Desirable Skills

• Bachelor's degree + 9 years OR Master's degree + 7 years in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience building AI infrastructure in a regulated or high-stakes domain (healthcare, finance, etc.).
• Open source, talks, or publications in applied AI or agentic systems.
• Startup experience building systems from the ground up.
• Experience mentoring Senior engineers.

Why Join Qualified Health?

This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing company and a world-class team, that is poised to change the healthcare industry. We are a passionate, mission-driven team that is building a category-defining product. We are backed by premier investors and are looking for founding team members who are excited to do the best work of their careers.

Our employees are integral to achieving our goals so we are proud to offer competitive salaries with equity packages, robust medical/dental/vision insurance, flexible working hours, hybrid work options and an inclusive environment that fosters creativity and innovation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Qualified Health is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential to our success, and we are committed to building a team that reflects the world we live in. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

Pay & Benefits: The pay range for this role is between $230,000 and 280,000, depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits.