Staff AI Platform Engineer — Equity & Scale

Kindredventures; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Office lunch & snack bar

Health and dental coverage

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Assured in New York City is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect, build, and productize our AI/ML infrastructure. You will bridge research, product, customers, and engineering, driving AI adoption from strategy through production at scale in an early-stage environment.

This role requires owning architecture, building scalable systems, and leading cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and operations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience building and scaling complex, distributed systems or workflow-heavy SaaS platforms.
• Deep experience implementing AI harnesses.
• Recent experience in startups.
• Proven ability to own architecture and make high-stakes technical decisions in ambiguous, high-growth environments.
• Deep understanding of modern cloud architecture and full software stacks.
• Excellent communication — able to clearly explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve a modular architecture to power configurable healthcare workflows at scale.
• Build a workflow orchestration engine capable of handling thousands of concurrent stateful tasks (credentialing, verification, enrollment).
• Define and optimize integration frameworks to connect with thousands of external systems — web portals, APIs, PDFs, spreadsheets.
• Drive reliability, auditability, and performance through observability, self-healing, and clear fault-domain boundaries.
• Lead the design and deployment of AI-powered digital workers — LLM- and rules-driven agents that perform operational workflows end-to-end.
• Evaluate AI tools, frameworks, and third-party APIs, ensuring alignment with platform goals and data protection requirements.
• Partner with product, engineering, and analytics to discover use cases, build features, and deliver value.
• Engage with customers to understand operational challenges, validate assumptions, and iterate solutions quickly.
• Provide technical mentorship to the engineering team.

Skills

Distributed systems

AI harnesses

Startup experience

Architecture ownership

Cloud architecture

Communication

Job description

Assured in New York City is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect, build, and productize our AI/ML infrastructure. You will bridge research, product, customers, and engineering, driving AI adoption from strategy through production at scale in an early-stage environment.

This role requires owning architecture, building scalable systems, and leading cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and operations.