# Research Engineer at Assort Health

- Company: Assort Health
- What the company does: AI voice agents for healthcare. Schedule, intake, triage, referrals, follow-up across 23+ specialties. 250M+ patient interactions. Live in weeks. Backed by Lightspeed and Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.assorthealth.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $190K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/assorthealth/dabc8eb7-3e56-4811-aaab-d0bc31e588ff
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/assort-health-research-engineer/

## About the role

As a Research Engineer, you’ll be responsible for building industry-leading healthcare AI models and model pipelines that power Assort’s voice agents and overall patient platform, taking them all the way from idea to production. You’ll own large initiatives that push the boundary of what models and agents can accomplish in the healthcare space while maintaining high levels of reliability, efficiency, and precision of accomplishing tasks.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience with a minimum of 3+ in AI/ML engineering or research
- Prior experience post-training and deploying LLMs in production environments
- Fluency in Python and modern ML tooling (training, evaluation, inference, data pipelines)
- Track record of taking research ideas from prototype → reliable, measurable production impact
- Strong experimental judgment: formulating hypotheses, establishing useful baselines, designing evaluations, and interpreting results carefully
- (Bonus) Prior experience utilizing and improving speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS) models, and/or duplex models

Tags: Engineering