# Founding Engineer, Applied Research at Backbone

- Company: Backbone
- What the company does: Evolve your gaming with Backbone's mobile controller & all-in-one mobile app that lets you cloud game & play mobile and cross-platform titles from anywhere. Backed by Index.
- Company website: https://playbackbone.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/backbone/cbfce5dc-e2c7-452e-bb23-2dac1198df7d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/backbone-founding-engineer-applied-research/

## About the role

We’re solving applied research problems in clinical intelligence. Backbone’s core systems, based on post-trained open-weights models and systems of closed-weights models, read charts, claims, denials, appeals, clinical criteria, payer policies, and quality metrics, then make accurate, defensible decisions in production. We also leverage continually improving browser-use and computer-use models to navigate payer portals, EHRs, practice management systems, and the messy software layer that healthcare runs on.

## What they're looking for

- New grad through ~5-6 years of experience, with experience with ML research, language models, NLP, evals, reinforcement learning, agentic systems, or model improvement
- Clear evidence of technical depth through papers, projects, internships, open-source work, competitions, or production ML systems. Infrastructure or systems experience is a major plus
- Excitement about building applied research systems where the output touches real workflows, real dollars, and real patient impact
- Healthcare experience is helpful, but not required. Curiosity, rigor, and taste matter more

Tags: Engineering