Founding Engineer — San Francisco Bay Area — LinkedIn — 4489951996

A venture-backed, seed-stage healthcare AI startup is hiring a Founding Engineer to help healthcare providers and insurers work through claims, prior authorizations, denials and appeals.

What you’ll do

• Build evaluations that measure how well models interpret clinical charts, review claims, apply authorization criteria and analyze denials.

• Improve model performance through prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval and structured reasoning using real clinical and financial data.

• Develop browser and computer-use agents that navigate payer portals, electronic health record systems and other healthcare software.

• Work with backend and forward-deployed engineers to bring research improvements into production and learn from how they perform in practice.

What you’ll bring

• 2+ years of relevant engineering or applied research experience.

• Hands-on experience in one or more areas such as LLM evaluation, fine-tuning, retrieval or agent development.

• The ability to turn an ambiguous problem into a focused experiment and use the results to decide what to build next.

Full-time, on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area, $160,000–$200,000 base salary + equity.