Staff AI Platform Engineer: Scalable LLM Workflows

Qualified Health PBC; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity packages

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Flexible working hours

Hybrid work options

Job summary

Qualified Health PBC is seeking a Staff Applied AI Engineer to take technical ownership of how it builds and scales agentic workflows across multiple product lines. This onsite role in Palo Alto focuses on creating the infrastructure and engineering standards that help teams ship AI-powered features with reliability, speed, and consistency.

You will help shape the way the organization translates healthcare AI challenges into scalable systems by setting architectural patterns, building reusable

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering foundation with Python required.
• 5+ years building production software, including 2+ years building AI-powered applications with LLMs.
• Proven experience architecting REST APIs and services deployed at scale in cloud environments (GCP preferred).
• Strong grasp of MLOps, model deployment, and workflow automation.
• Track record of driving technical decisions with significant ambiguity and minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build core agentic workflow infrastructure supporting 100+ workflows across multiple product lines.
• Define technical standards and reusable patterns for eval pipelines, prompt frameworks, and deployment patterns.
• Lead design and code review for complex, cross-cutting integrations and production services.
• Drive evaluation and adoption decisions for state-of-the-art LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral) incl. build-versus-buy tradeoffs.
• Mentor engineers on production-grade agentic system design and MLOps practices.
• Partner with product, engineering, and design leadership to shape the technical roadmap for AI-powered features.
• Identify and resolve systemic bottlenecks in the workflow infrastructure before they slow execution.

Skills

Python

Production system design

MLOps

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 7 years

Master’s degree + 5 years

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Mistral

ChatGPT

Job description

Qualified Health PBC is seeking a Staff Applied AI Engineer to take technical ownership of how it builds and scales agentic workflows across multiple product lines. This onsite role in Palo Alto focuses on creating the infrastructure and engineering standards that help teams ship AI-powered features with reliability, speed, and consistency.

You will help shape the way the organization translates healthcare AI challenges into scalable systems by setting architectural patterns, building reusable