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Qualified Health PBC
Full time
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USA
11/12/2026
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Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities

Own the architecture and roadmap for agentic workflow infrastructure in the assigned product area.
Partner with product and engineering leads on technical tradeoffs, build-versus-buy decisions, and sequencing.
Define and apply standards for LLM evaluation, deployment, safety, and monitoring, while contributing to organization-wide standards.
Act as a technical escalation point for difficult and ambiguous problems.
Write production code and solve complex technical problems directly.
Evaluate emerging models, frameworks, and techniques, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral, and recommend adoption decisions.
Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar through design and code review.
Set technical direction for a team or product area and drive adoption across teams.

Requirements

Python is required, along with a strong software engineering foundation and experience architecting systems used by multiple teams.
At least 7 years of experience building production software and ML engineering systems, including at least 2 years of hands-on production LLM or agentic work.
Strong machine learning fundamentals and hands-on experience developing, training, fine-tuning, and evaluating ML models.
Experience taking ML models from experimentation through production deployment, scaling, monitoring, and ongoing optimization.
Strong understanding of ML pipelines, model serving, and MLOps.
Experience with workflow automation for AI-driven systems.
Ability to work independently on ambiguous, high-stakes problems and influence engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Bachelor’s degree plus 9 years or master’s degree plus 7 years in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Experience building AI infrastructure in a regulated or high-stakes domain is desirable.
Open source contributions, talks, or publications in applied AI or agentic systems are desirable.
Startup experience building systems from the ground up and experience mentoring senior engineers are desirable.

Benefits

Competitive base salary of $230,000–$280,000, plus equity and benefits.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Flexible working hours.
Hybrid work options.
Inclusive environment focused on creativity and innovation.

Salary: $230k - $280k/yr

Qualified Health PBC

Qualified Health PBC builds an enterprise AI platform for health systems, combining workflow automation, generative AI agent development, clinical safeguards, real-time monitoring, and end-to-end governance. The company sells software and partnership-based deployment services to drive measurable ...

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