Engineer in Residence: MedBuddy

What you'll build

• A medication management workflow that helps older adults understand what they are taking, why they are taking it, and what conflicts to watch for.
• A voice-friendly or chat-based interface that works for lower-digital-literacy users.
• Caregiver and clinician views that turn day-to-day logs into useful summaries and follow-up context.
• A system for adherence, symptom, and condition tracking that improves continuity of care.

What you'll do

• Own the build across conversational experience, medication logic, patient and caregiver workflow, and deployment.
• Design for trust, clarity, and low-friction use by older adults rather than assuming power-user behavior.
• Decide where GenAI adds value in explanation, summarization, and coordination, and where deterministic safety checks should dominate.
• Work with patients, caregivers, and clinicians to learn where the product reduces confusion versus creating new risk.
• Work with AI Fund's build team on wedge selection, local market fit, and what could become a durable chronic care platform.

What you need

• Strong product engineering ability and meaningful experience in health tech, consumer health apps, messaging products, or conversational systems.
• A strong sense for UX under trust and accessibility constraints, especially for elderly or low-digital-literacy users.
• Experience with GenAI systems, safe summarization, voice or chat interfaces, or messaging platform integrations such as LINE or WhatsApp.
• The ability to build both patient-facing simplicity and caregiver or clinician-facing structure.
• You know how to use AI coding assistants and modern AI tools to move quickly without losing safety judgment.
• You can work on-site in Mountain View, CA for the duration of the residency.
• Mandarin fluency is required, since the product is being built for the Taiwan market.

Helpful but not required

• Experience in medication management, care coordination, elder care, or chronic disease support products.
• Experience with speech interfaces, multilingual UX, or family-sharing workflows.
• Founder or founding engineer experience in consumer health or workflow-heavy products.

What to know upfront

• This is a 12-week, full-time, on-site build residency in Mountain View, California.
• This role is being built for the Taiwan market, so product decisions need to fit local workflows, patient expectations, and operator realities.
• Not every residency becomes a company. The point is to validate the wedge quickly and honestly with real users and domain experts.
• You will be building an AI Fund idea, not bringing your own startup idea into the program.
• The process typically includes a working conversation, then a 48-hour Builder Challenge, then panel review with AI Fund build leadership.

Compensation

$10,000/month for 12 weeks ($30,000 total). This is a contract role during the residency. If the build leads to a funded company, the next step is a founder-level role with meaningful equity upside.