# Staff Software Engineer - Brain Health, AI

**Company:** [Hinge Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hinge-health)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $198k – $296k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Nestjs, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spark, Kafka, MLOps
**Posted:** 2026-03-05

> Leads architecture and development of agentic AI systems for personalized brain health therapies, including conversational therapy and education platforms. Requires 8+ years software engineering with 2+ years AI/ML focus, Python/TypeScript expertise, and distributed systems experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Architect and scale agentic AI systems for multi-session conversational therapy, maintaining context, emotional intelligence, and clinical protocols.
- Design centralized service for personalized pain science education and mindset strategies.
- Define long-term technical vision for Brain Health, balancing delivery with scalable infrastructure.
- Establish MLOps practices for model evaluation, monitoring, and safety guardrails in mental health AI.
- Lead and mentor engineers, foster technical excellence, and drive cross-functional collaboration.

## Requirements
**Basic Qualifications**
- 8+ years professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years in AI platforms, ML systems, or data infrastructure.
- 2+ years Python (AI/ML) and TypeScript/NestJS (cloud microservices).
- Strong background in cloud platforms (**AWS** preferred), containerization (**Docker**, **Kubernetes**).
- Proven experience designing distributed systems and large-scale data processing architectures.
- 2+ years mentoring engineers and leading technical decisions in cross-functional teams.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience building end-to-end AI/ML platforms in cloud.
- Proficiency with IaC tools (**Terraform**, **CloudFormation**).
- Familiarity with data engineering (**Spark**, **Kafka**, ETL pipelines).
- Excellent communication for non-technical stakeholders.
- Open-source contributions in AI/software engineering.

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