Founding AI Agent Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners · San Francisco Bay Area · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an early-stage healthtech company building AI agents for clinical trial recruitment. You will own the development of patient-facing conversational agents, helping connect people with relevant trials while building for safety and scale in a regulated industry.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Orchestrate AI agents that coordinate patient recruitment across clinical trials in North America.
- Review production conversations, identify failure scenarios, turn them into evaluations, and improve the agent harness.
- Integrate health profile data sources to support timely outreach and patient qualification.
- Scale language model experiences across voice, SMS, and email while maintaining consistent, personalized conversations.
- Evaluate emerging agent tools and research and incorporate them into the software platform.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Zero to four years of experience as a software engineer, agent engineer, or applied AI engineer.
- Experience focused on building production AI agents and large-scale AI applications, including conversational agents and agent harnesses in text or voice.
- Hands-on experience developing evaluation and tracing infrastructure for AI agents.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, with a full-stack background and applied LLM experience.
- Familiarity with conversational AI, agent orchestration, LLMs, LangGraph, the Vercel AI SDK, voice AI, SMS APIs, and healthcare system integrations.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Resourcefulness, strong execution, and interest in healthtech or life sciences; experience in the domain is a plus.
- Authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship and able to work on-site in the San Francisco Bay Area.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $150,000 to $220,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
LOCATION
On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States.