# Forward Deployed Engineer (Mid/Senior) at Hippocratic AI

- Company: Hippocratic AI
- What the company does: Hippocratic AI builds the safest generative AI healthcare agent for health systems, payors, and pharma. Over 180 million clinical interactions across 1,000+ use cases with 60+ partners worldwide. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.
- Company website: https://www.hippocraticai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Menlo Park, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hippocratic%20ai/378e1797-b92c-4fce-98d2-03481e214bb5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hippocratic-ai-forward-deployed-engineer-mid-senior/

## About the role

Design and implement RAG pipelines that ground conversational AI responses in customer clinical data, ensuring accuracy, safety, and relevance to healthcare workflows while managing retrieval latency and data governance Build tool-calling and Model Context Protocol (MCP) architectures that enable AI agents to interact securely with customer systems—EHRs (Epic, Cerner, Athena), data warehouses, and operational tools—handling errors gracefully and enforcing safety constraints

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong Python fundamentals and production software development experience
- Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks (LangChain, LangSmith, or similar) and deep understanding of modern LLM development patterns and best practices
- Deep expertise in LLM techniques including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, tool calling, LLM-as-judge, and related advanced patterns
- Demonstrated experience building integrations with APIs, databases, or enterprise systems, comfort with async patterns, error handling, and reliability engineering
- Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar frameworks for tool integration and multi-system orchestration

Tags: Customer Experience