Founding AI Agent Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners · San Francisco Bay Area · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an early-stage healthtech company developing AI agents for clinical trial recruitment and patient support. You will build and own patient-facing conversational agents, helping research teams connect with eligible participants while maintaining safe, consistent experiences in a regulated setting.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and orchestrate AI agents that coordinate patient recruitment across multiple clinical trials.
- Review production conversations, identify failure scenarios, develop evaluations, and use results to improve agent infrastructure.
- Integrate health profile data sources to support timely outreach and patient qualification.
- Scale language-model conversations across voice, SMS, and email while maintaining consistent, personalized interactions.
- Evaluate and incorporate advances in agent tooling and research into the software platform.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Zero to four years of software engineering, agent engineering, or applied AI experience.
- Hands-on experience building conversational agents and agent harnesses for real users at scale, beyond prototypes or internal tools.
- 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, multi-agent orchestration, voice or SMS systems, and tools such as LangGraph or Vercel AI SDK.
- An undergraduate degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent strong technical foundations.
- Interest or experience in healthtech, healthcare, or life sciences is valuable.
- A proactive, resourceful approach to solving difficult engineering problems.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary is $150,000 to $220,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
LOCATION
On-site in California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area.