Senior Software Engineer

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Menlo Park, CA, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech
The Role
Build and maintain scalable backend infrastructure for healthcare AI applications. Develop distributed multimodal data pipelines, APIs, microservices, data ingestion and metadata systems, and ML enablement workflows. Optimize performance, reliability, monitoring, and uptime for production LLM systems. Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, physicians, and product managers to translate healthcare requirements into technical solutions. This is an in-person role five days per week in Menlo Park.
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Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Hippocratic AI's AI agents are already working inside real hospitals and health systems — this role owns the backend infrastructure that keeps them fast, reliable, and ready to scale as that footprint grows. You'll architect systems built for tomorrow's volume, not just today's, working closely with data scientists, ML engineers, and product managers to turn healthcare requirements into production-grade infrastructure.

What You'll Do

Build Scalable, Reliable AI Infrastructure

  • Architect backend systems that sustain 99.9%+ uptime for high-volume healthcare data and LLM processing as usage grows exponentially

  • Implement monitoring that surfaces issues before they reach production AI agents

  • Own performance and reliability improvements across backend systems in collaboration with data scientists and ML engineers

Engineer Data Pipelines for Healthcare AI

  • Design data pipelines that ingest, process, and prepare large-scale, multi-modal (speech, vision, text) healthcare datasets for training and inference with minimal latency

  • Build tag management and metadata systems that make large datasets organized and retrievable

  • Develop and optimize infrastructure supporting data ingestion, feature extraction, and tagging workflows

Ship APIs and ML Enablement

  • Develop APIs and microservices that reduce processing time and improve responsiveness for AI model interaction and data retrieval

  • Build infrastructure that makes ML workflows reproducible end-to-end, from data preparation through model deployment

  • Accelerate time-to-production for new AI capabilities

Location and Travel

We believe the best ideas happen together. To support fast collaboration and a strong team culture, this role is expected to be in our Menlo Park office five days a week.

What You BringMust-Have
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (Master's preferred)

  • 4+ years of backend development experience using Python, Golang, or similar languages

  • Experience building and maintaining multi-modal (speech, vision, text) data pipelines using Ray, Apache Airflow, or similar for distributed processing and model experimentation, including distributed computing frameworks like Spark or Hadoop

  • Familiarity with relational database systems and RESTful APIs

  • Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar)

Nice-to-Have
  • Exposure to AI/ML concepts or experience working with LLMs

  • Experience working in teams that handle sensitive or regulated data

  • Familiarity with gRPC, GraphQL, or similar

  • Experience with real-time audio

  • Exposure to DevOps concepts — CI/CD, deployment, Terraform, build systems

  • Experience with data science

What Success Looks Like

Within 6-12 months, the backend systems you've built or hardened are sustaining 99.9%+ uptime under exponential growth in healthcare data and LLM traffic. New AI capabilities move from data preparation to production faster because the ML workflows and pipelines you designed are reproducible end-to-end. Your monitoring catches issues before they ever reach a live AI agent in a hospital setting.

Why Join Hippocratic AI

Reinvent healthcare with AI that puts safety first. We’re building the world’s first healthcare‑only, safety‑focused LLM — a breakthrough platform designed to transform patient outcomes at a global scale. This is category creation.

Work with the people shaping the future. Hippocratic AI was co‑founded by CEO Munjal Shah and a team of physicians, hospital leaders, AI pioneers, and researchers from institutions like El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

Backed by the world’s leading healthcare and AI investors. We recently raised a $126M Series C at a $3.5B valuation, led by Avenir Growth, bringing total funding to $404M with participation from CapitalG, General Catalyst, a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Premji Invest, UHS, Cincinnati Children’s, WellSpan Health, John Doerr, Rick Klausner, and others.

Build alongside the best in healthcare and AI. Join experts who’ve spent their careers improving care, advancing science, and building world‑changing technologies — ensuring our platform is powerful, trusted, and truly transformative.

Equal Opportunity

Hippocratic AI is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are committed to building a team that reflects the patients we serve. We actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. If you require accommodations during the hiring process, please contact [email protected].

Please be aware of recruitment scams impersonating Hippocratic AI. All recruiting communication will come from @hippocraticai.com email addresses. We will never request payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
  • 4+ years of backend development experience using Python, Golang, or similar programming languages
  • Experience building and maintaining multimodal data pipelines involving speech, vision, and text
  • Experience with Ray or Apache Airflow for distributed processing and model experimentation
  • Experience with distributed computing using Spark, Hadoop, or similar technologies
  • Familiarity with relational database systems
  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs
  • Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP
  • Master's degree
  • Exposure to AI/ML concepts or experience working with LLMs
  • Experience handling sensitive or regulated data
  • Familiarity with gRPC, GraphQL, or similar technologies
  • Experience with real-time audio
  • Exposure to DevOps concepts, CI/CD, deployment, Terraform, or build systems
  • Experience with data science
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The Company
HQ: Palo Alto, California
97 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

Hippocratic AI’s mission is to develop the first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare. The company believes that a safe LLM can dramatically improve healthcare accessibility and health outcomes in the world by bringing deep healthcare expertise to every human. No other technology has the potential to have this level of global impact on health. The company was co-founded by CEO Munjal Shah, alongside a group of physicians, hospital administrators, healthcare professionals, and artificial intelligence researchers from El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, Google, Microsoft, Meta and NVIDIA. Hippocratic AI has received a total of $137 million in funding and is backed by leading investors, including General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Premji Invest, SV Angel, NVentures (Nvidia Venture Capital), and Greycroft. For more information on Hippocratic AI: www.HippocraticAI.com.

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