Senior Engineer, Applied AI

Posted 3 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office or Remote
160K-180K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech • Social Impact • Software
Honor is revolutionizing how society cares for older adults, their families, and Care Professionals.
The Role
Design, build, and productionize Applied AI foundations: model access, retrieval/memory, observability, secure data paths, human-in-the-loop workflows, and reusable AI-driven platform capabilities that support product and operational teams.
Summary Generated by Built In

Honor Technology’s mission is to change the way society cares for older adults. As a leader in aging care innovation, Honor provides the technology, tools, and services that empower older adults to live life on their own terms. Honor’s growing portfolio includes its consumer care brand, Home Instead, Inc., the world’s leading provider of in-home care for older adults. With a global franchise network and more than 100,000 Care Pros, Home Instead delivers over 50 million hours of personalized care annually.

Together, Honor and Home Instead are setting a new standard for aging in place, backed by powerful technology, compassionate care, and a commitment to aging on your own terms.

Join us to create a new and better aging experience for our clients, their families, and our Care Professionals. 

About the work

This position is on our Applied AI team, which is responsible for helping Honor safely and pragmatically apply AI across our operating model, product systems, and internal workflows.

The mission of the Applied AI team is to help Honor become an organization that learns faster, remembers more, and continuously compounds what it learns over time. We believe the most valuable use of AI at Honor is not isolated task automation, but building durable organizational intelligence: systems that retain operational context, surface relevant prior learning, support better decisions, and help teams turn fragmented insights into repeatable improvements.

Honor operates in a deeply relationship-driven industry. The best home care operators personalize service because they remember the details, understand context, and adapt to the situation. At Honor’s scale, that requires thoughtful systems: reliable context, governed access, reusable AI patterns, traceable workflows, and product experiences that help humans and agents make better decisions together.

As a Senior Engineer on Applied AI, you will help design, build, and productionize the foundations that make this possible. You may work on systems that power AI-assisted sales follow-up, operational defect analysis, reusable memory and retrieval patterns, internal agentic tools, AI-powered data analysis, schedulable workflows, or closed-loop feedback systems that connect audits, product changes, and measurable business outcomes.

You will work closely with engineering, product, design, data, operations, security, and business stakeholders to move quickly while maintaining the discipline needed for production systems. This team is highly exploratory, but the work is not a lab exercise. We are looking for engineers who can turn ambiguous AI opportunities into safe, reliable, measurable product and platform capabilities.

We have an exciting runway ahead of us. As AI becomes an operational layer across Honor, we need engineers who can help create the paved roads: secure model access, compliant data pathways, observability, cost controls, evaluation patterns, human-in-the-loop workflows, and reusable architecture that allows teams across Honor to adopt AI without creating long-term fragmentation.

About you
  • You thrive in a diverse, cross-functional team, collaborating with design, product management, data, operations, security, and other engineering teams.
  • You are excited by ambiguous, high-leverage problems where the right answer requires both technical judgment and operational empathy.
  • You enjoy building production-grade systems that connect user-facing workflows, backend services, data pipelines, and AI/LLM capabilities.
  • You’ve built and maintained production-grade features in Python, or have transferable experience in common languages like Node.js and are willing to learn Python.
  • You know how to design reliable data models and have used relational databases at scale.
  • You have been a key contributor to the design and implementation of large, complex projects.
  • You are comfortable working in and refactoring legacy, monolithic systems while also designing new services and integration patterns.
  • You are a strong communicator, both verbally and in writing, and can explain technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • You think carefully about quality, observability, privacy, security, and operational risk.
  • You are excited to work with AI systems in a way that is pragmatic, measurable, and grounded in real business outcomes.
  • You are willing to participate in an on-call rotation in collaboration with our tier 1 support team.
Some, or all, of these are true
  • You have experience building LLM-powered products, AI agents, retrieval systems, memory systems, or evaluation frameworks.
  • You have worked with model providers or platforms such as AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, or similar systems.
  • You have experience with secure data access patterns, RBAC, auditability, or compliant data workflows.
  • You have built internal tools, workflow automation, or systems that support operations teams at scale.
  • You are comfortable working with messy operational data and turning it into reliable product or platform capabilities.
  • You have experience designing systems that involve human-in-the-loop review, feedback loops, or measurable quality improvement.
  • You are knowledgeable about microservice architecture and best practices.
  • You have experience working with an RPC architecture.
  • You are comfortable with frontend development and have experience with JavaScript frameworks like React.
  • You have experience leveraging observability and monitoring tools like DataDog.
  • You enjoy mentoring and spreading knowledge to other engineers.
  • You are energized by building foundations that help other teams move faster and more safely.
Tech you may use
  • Python
  • Thrift
  • MySQL
  • AWS
  • AWS Bedrock
  • OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, or similar model platforms
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Looker
  • GitHub
  • DataDog
  • Internal agentic tools and workflow automation platforms

#LI-Remote

Our range reflects the hiring range for this position.  We use national average to determine pay as we are a remote first company.  Individual pay is based on a number of factors including qualifications, skills, experience, education, and training.


Base pay is just a part of our total rewards program.  Honor offers generous equity packages that increase with position level and responsibilities, and a 401K with up to a 4% employer match.
We provide medical, dental and vision coverage including zero cost plans for employees.  Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance are fully employer paid with a voluntary additional Life Insurance option.  We offer a generous time off program, mental health benefits, wellness program, and discount program.

 

Hiring Salary Range
$160,000$180,000 USD

At Honor, we put people first. Our leadership culture is guided by Leadership Principles that prioritize integrity, compassion, and excellence. We offer a unique opportunity to lead with purpose and make a meaningful impact no matter your role.

Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief. 

Skills Required

  • Production-grade engineering experience building systems that connect user-facing workflows, backend services, data pipelines, and AI/LLM capabilities.
  • Experience building and maintaining production-grade features in Python or Node.js (willingness to learn Python).
  • Experience designing reliable data models and using relational databases at scale (e.g., MySQL).
  • Proven track record as a key contributor to the design and implementation of large, complex projects.
  • Comfort working in and refactoring legacy/monolithic systems while designing new services and integration patterns.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills; able to explain technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Focus on quality, observability, privacy, security, and operational risk in production systems.
  • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation in collaboration with tier 1 support.
  • Experience building LLM-powered products, agents, retrieval/memory systems, or evaluation frameworks.
  • Experience with model providers or platforms such as AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, or similar.
  • Experience implementing secure data access patterns, RBAC, auditability, or compliant data workflows.
  • Experience with microservice architecture and RPC architectures (e.g., Thrift).
  • Frontend development experience with JavaScript frameworks like React.
  • Experience using observability and monitoring tools such as DataDog.
  • Familiarity with Looker and GitHub for analytics and source control workflows.
  • Experience mentoring and spreading knowledge to other engineers.
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
550 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

The Honor Care Platform combines local care and the most advanced technology to deliver over a million hours of care every week. We’re combining high tech with high-touch to deliver better home care for aging adults, better jobs for Care Professionals, and entirely new offerings to support the aging journey, at scale.

Why Work With Us

Working for Honor means being part of a united team where everyone shows up authentically, shares ideas bravely, and solves complex problems. A diverse environment, with women making up more than 50% of the company and 45% of the senior management team. We provide regular performance reviews, L&D opportunities, town halls,ERGs, & internal mobility

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