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Sr. Software Engineer (Health AI and Machine Learning)

23andMe · 2 Locations · On-site

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About 23andMe

23andMe offers DNA testing with the most comprehensive ancestry breakdown, personalized health insights and more. Backed by NEA, GV and Sapphire.

About the role

23andMe is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build the AI systems that turn one of the world's largest genetic datasets into personalized health insights. You'll design and operate agentic AI pipelines that retrieve relevant genetic context, orchestrate LLMs, and deliver results that customers use to make real health decisions. The quality bar is high — and that's exactly the point. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Build agentic AI systems that generate personalized health and ancestry insights for customers, orchestrating LLMs with relevant genetic and clinical context
  • Design and implement RAG pipelines that retrieve relevant context from vector stores to ground model outputs in a customer's specific genetic data
  • Build robust evaluation frameworks to measure model quality, catch regressions, and ensure AI-generated results meet the bar for a health product
  • Build and rely on CI/CD methods and automatic testing to ensure reliable code, continuously delivered
  • Debug production incidents and get services back online – you'll own what you ship
  • Integrate AI into daily workflows to automate tasks and improve efficiency
More about this role

23andMe is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build the AI systems that turn one of the world's largest genetic datasets into personalized health insights. You'll design and operate agentic AI pipelines that retrieve relevant genetic context, orchestrate LLMs, and deliver results that customers use to make real health decisions. The quality bar is high — and that's exactly the point.

Our Engineering team is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, and this position will follow our hybrid work model.

We are a group of individuals passionate about genetic discovery. 23andMe Research Institute is a nonprofit medical research organization that enables people everywhere to access their genetic information, learn about themselves, and participate in the world's largest crowdsourced research initiative. The Institute aims to be the world's most significant contributor to scientific advancement, uniting people with the common goal of improving health and deepening our understanding of DNA — the code of life.

  • Build agentic AI systems that generate personalized health and ancestry insights for customers, orchestrating LLMs with relevant genetic and clinical context
  • Design...

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