Agent Deployment Engineer (Residency Program)

Hippocratic AI
Palo Alto, CA, United States
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Databases Computer Engineering Django Web Framework Python (Programming Language) Machine Learning Language Modeling Web Application Frameworks Flask (Web Framework) Large Language Models Spring-boot Backend
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Information Technology Virtual Agents Restful APIs GPT

Job description

We’re seeking a Agent Deployment Engineer to join our collaborative team of engineers, scientists, and healthcare professionals working on transformative AI solutions. In this role, you’ll help develop and maintain our conversation layer using a mix of software and prompting skills to allow our AI agent facilitate autonomous conversations., * Develop complex prompts in our SOTA conversation planning layer to enable complex agentic model workflows

  • Collaborate with Product Managers, Software Engineers and Clinicians to create fully autonomous, clinical conversations.
  • Write, configure and iterate on prompts to create engaging, patient-oriented conversations
  • Use advanced prompting techniques to develop and optimize prompts for language models to improve model performance, clinical safety, and patient experience.
  • Conduct experiments and analyze outcomes of model outputs to refine and iterate on prompt strategies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent coursework/projects).
  • 2+ years industry experience
  • Experience with Python
  • Experience with LLM prompting (chatGPT, Claude, etc) through professional or personal use
  • Exposure to working with databases and building simple RESTful APIs.
  • Strong problem-solving mindset and eagerness to learn new technologies.

Nice-to-Have:

  • Experience with personal or academic projects involving backend development.
  • Basic understanding of AI/ML concepts or a desire to learn about them.
  • Knowledge of modern web frameworks (e.g., Flask, Django, or Spring Boot).
  • Awareness of data privacy and security best practices, especially in regulated environments.

About the company

Hippocratic AI is the leading generative AI company in healthcare. We have the only system that can have safe, autonomous, clinical conversations with patients. We have trained our own LLMs as part of our Polaris constellation, resulting in a system with over 99.9% accuracy.

Why Join Our Team

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.

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