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RulaRulaLos Angeles, CA

Sr. Staff AI Engineer (Remote)

Builds production-grade generative AI systems powering patient engagement, provider workflows, and clinical operations in mental healthcare. Requires 10+ years software engineering, deep Python/cloud expertise, and 2+ years scaling AI products with foundation models and LLM patterns.

229k – 284k/yr
Remote10+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering, including 7+ years of experience with Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, etc.), 5+ years designing and scaling distributed systems.
  • 5+ years of deep experience in Python and at least one backend language (preferably JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, or Go)
  • 2+ years of proven track record building AI-powered products at scale, including hands-on experience with foundation models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Gemini, etc.).
  • 2+ years of strong experience in LLM integration patterns (RAG, function calling, agents, memory routing, etc.), or AI orchestration frameworks (eg. LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, Haystack), or vector databases (eg. Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Milvus).
  • 3+ years in working with MLOps, data pipelines, evaluation, and observability systems for continuous model improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience architecting secure and compliant AI solutions in regulated environments (HIPAA, GDPR, etc.).
  • Familiarity with human-in-the-loop systems and clinical decision support frameworks.
  • Experience designing evaluation pipelines for human alignment, factual accuracy, or model interpretability.
  • Contributions to open-source AI frameworks or applied research in NLP, healthcare AI, or GenAI safety.
  • Experience contributing to early-stage team growth (0 → 1)
  • Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams in AI, ML platform, or applied research domains.

Skills

PythonAWSGCPJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaGoLLMsRAGLangChainLlamaindexDspyPineconeWeaviateMLOps

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